University of Pennsylvania, Halper 360
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- DS ID:
- DS25791
- Shelfmark:
- Halper 360
- Title:
- Court document
- Scribe:
- Halfon ben Menasse, active 1100-1138
- Place:
- Fustat
- Date:
- 1100
- Language:
- Judeo-Arabic
- Material:
- fragment, losses along all edges; bleeding from recto through to verso; verso is blank
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 folio : fragment, losses along all edges; bleeding from recto through to verso; verso is blank
- Note:
- 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.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420383503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3bg2hv41/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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