[Court document] : manuscript.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

• Yeḥiʾel, ha-Dayan.
• Court records.
• Jewish law.
• Shehitah--Early works to 1800.
• Shehitah.
• Slaughtering and slaughter-houses.

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, right side only, torn lengthwise; verso is blank
• Paper 17.1 X 8.8 material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 19 partially extant.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

[Fustat], [publisher not identified], [1237?]

Language Note:

Hebrew. Hebrew

Notes:

• The right side of an official court document, produced under the auspices of the Nagid. The first two digits of the date and the name of the Nagid are in the missing left side. He is referred to as נר המערבי.
• The subject is the ritual slaughter preformed by R. Yeḥiel אלדיין. Perhaps this is R. Yeḥiel "the Judge" ben Eliakim who served under Abraham Maimonides in the early 13th century (see Goitein, A Mediterranean Society vol. II, pp. 485-488, and in the list of judges, ibid. Appendix D, no. 30).
• If so, than the date (in l. 3) is Seleucid [15]48 (=1237), the last year of Abraham Maimonides' reign. No signatures remain/appear in this fragment.
• Fomrs part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

• Halper, no. 361
• IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

249591023