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[Court document] : manuscript.

Library at the Katz Center - Genizah Fragments Halper 360
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Contributor:
Language:
Judeo-Arabic
Subjects (All):
Penn Provenance:
  • Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
  • Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
  • Amram.
Physical Description:
  • 1 folio : fragment, losses along all edges; bleeding from recto through to verso; verso is blank
  • Parchment 17.1 X 20.3 cm. material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: lines: 19 partially extant (recto).
Contained In:
Cairo Genizah Collection
Other Title:
Business document
Place of Publication:
[Fustat].
Language Note:
Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew
Notes:
  • A legal document in Judeo-Arabic. The named parties involved are Moses ha-Kohen, Abu Mantsur, and Abu Saʻad. The subject is a business transaction between them.
  • The hand is recognized as that of the court scribe Ḥalfon ha-Leṿi ben Menasheh. Over 250 such documents have been collected by Gershon Weiss, Legal documents written by the court clerk Halfon Ben Manasse, dated 1100-1138, a study in the diplomatics of the Cairo Geniza (Thesis (Ph.D.) in Oriental Studies--Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), University of Pennsylvania, 1970.
  • Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
Cited in:
  • Halper, no. 360
  • IMHM, no. F38400
OCLC:
249591023
Publisher Number:
12th century?]

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