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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25885

Shelfmark:

Halper 343

Title:

Court record

Document

Place:

Fustat

Old Cairo TGN

Date:

1127-1138

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

damaged losses from upper left edges; folded as a mail item

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : damaged losses from upper left edges; folded as a mail item

Note:

In the right margin of the recto is an additional inscription in diagonal lines in the opposite direction of the main inscription, as is common in mail items; fol. appears to be folded as a mail item, but there is no address nor delivery instruction.
A record in Judeo-Arabic, from the court of Matsliaḥ ha-Kohen Gaʾon, (mentioned in ll. 2, 14, 16, 20) who served in this capacity between 1127-1138. There are no signatures, which indicates that this is not a valid document, rather a court record or letter.
20 dinar has been presented in Alexandria by an honorable S[amuel ben N]issim (l. 9), is to be distributed among the widow and orphans of an unspecified man, recently deceased.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Shemuʹel ben Nisim

Court records

Jewish law

Matsliaḥ, ha-Kohen, 12th century

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420213503681

IIIF Manifest:

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania