University of Pennsylvania, Halper 342
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- DS ID:
- DS26093
- Shelfmark:
- Halper 342
- Title:
- Court document (draft)
- Scribe:
- Halfon ben Manasse, active 1100-1138
- Place:
- Fustat
- Date:
- 1127-1138?
- Language:
- Judeo-Arabic
- Material:
- connected to edge of another folio, as if bifolium from court codex; damaged, faded, losses at bottom, torn
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 folio : connected to edge of another folio, as if bifolium from court codex; damaged, faded, losses at bottom, torn
- Note:
- Written on both sides; diagonal scratch marks, signifying invalidation of the document.
A Judeo-Arabic draft from the record book of the Court of Matsliaḥ ha-Kohen Gaʾon, (l. 1: בית דין הגדול של אדוננו מצליח הכהן ראש [...]ע) who served in this capacity between 1127-1138.
The hand is recognized as that of the court scribe Ḥalfon ha-Levi ben Menashe. 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.
The draft records in Judeo-Arabic, a litigation settlement between Shabetai ha-Ḥazzan ben Joseph and his wife, Turfa daughter of ʹAmram. The object of the litigation includes clothes, house wares and a slave girl named Naʻim.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
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