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[Court document] : manuscript

Metadata

DS ID:

DS26081

Shelfmark:

Halper 353

Title:

Court document

Document

Place:

Fustat

Old Cairo TGN

Date:

997?

tenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

fragment, damaged losses from all edges, faded; verso is blank

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : fragment, damaged losses from all edges, faded; verso is blank

Note:

A fragment from a document, most of the details are missing. The writer declares that he has sold a quarter of his court which he inherited.
Mention is made of the Erets Israeli synagogue, probably the one in Fustat that housed the Genizah: במבוי בית הכנסת שלשמיין. The gold coins gained from this sale are to repay a loan, whose time is mentioned as beginning in Ab of the year (Selucid) [1]308 (=997).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Jewish law

Sales (Jewish law)

Court records

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420313503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3988358x/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania