[Court document] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yosef ben Elʻazar, ha-Mumḥeh, witness.

Elʻazar ben ʻEli, ha-Kohen, witness.

Yosef ben Nisim, ha-Kohen, witness.

Yakhin ben Avraham, witness.

Hilel ben Eli, scribe.

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

Language:

Aramaic

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Court records.

Declaration of intention.

Jewish law.

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 : nearly complete, damaged, torn, faded; verso is blank; folded widthwise into four equal quarters

Paper 25.6 X 15 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: left rule filled by stretching last character columns: lines: 29 [26, plus 3 signatures] (recto).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Official declaration of intent

Place of Publication:

[Fustat. 1066-1108?]

Language Note:

Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic. Hebrew

Notes:

A document in Judeo-Arabic, mixed with legal Aramaic. Sitt al-Dar, wife of Ṣedaka ha-Levi, promises to comply with the stipulation of her late brother (also named Ṣedaka), that she should provide for her mother and for her mother's funeral.

She also promised to pay her brother Hiba abu Saʻid 10 dinar if he appeared in the country. Her husband confirms, and stands security for her promise.

The document is signed by the court of Joseph "the expert" ben Elʹazar, Elʹazar ha-kohen he-Ḥazzan ben Eli he-Ḥaver, Joseph ha-kohen ben Nissim, and in the corner, in a different hand, Yakhin ben Abraham.

The first of these is signed on a draft of a court document issued in 1085 in Fustat, along with Mevasser ben Ḥalfon, in Oxford Bodleian Heb. d. 66 (Cowely 2878) fol. 133 verso.

The hand of the scribe is recognized as that of Hillel ben Eli. Dated documents written by him range from 1066-1108 (Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. II, p. 231).

Published by Gershon Weiss: Documents written by Hillel ben Eli, a study in the diplomatics of the Cairo Geniza (Thesis (M.A.) in Oriental Studies--Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), University of Pennsylvania, 1967 (no. 55).

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 365

IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

249590232