University of Pennsylvania, Halper 335

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DS ID:

DS25778

Shelfmark:

Halper 335

Title:

Court document

Document

Place:

Fustat

Old Cairo TGN

Date:

Sunday, March 15, 1041

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

damaged, torn; cropped on bottom edge, erasures; folded widthwise in equal quarters

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : damaged, torn; cropped on bottom edge, erasures; folded widthwise in equal quarters

Note:

Cropped on bottom, after which the initial inscription was erased with four lines to signify its invalidation, and then recopied on the verso, in smaller writing to fit the new size of the folio.
Testimony that Naḥum ben Faraḥ deeds a court (חצר) in Ṣahrajt (Lower Egypt) to his unwed sisters Muna and Sittuna, as he was obligated to give them one tenth of his inheritance as maintenance.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Inheritance and succession (Jewish law)

Naḥum ben Faraḥ, 11th century

Jewish law

Munah

Court records

Situnah

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420133503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p37h1f55r/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania