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[Court document] : manuscript

Metadata

DS ID:

DS26140

Shelfmark:

Halper 349

Title:

Court document

Document

Place:

Fustat

Old Cairo TGN

Date:

1383 or 1384?

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Aramaic WIKIDATA

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

damaged, losses in upper left corner and center-right edge, faded; verso is blank

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : damaged, losses in upper left corner and center-right edge, faded; verso is blank

Note:

A court document in Judeo-Arabic and legal Aramaic, under the authority of the Nagid ʻAmram, whose titles and epithets fill the first nine lines (mostly in Hebrew). See Simḥa Assaf, Tsiyon VI (1941), p. 113-115.
Muafaḳ ben Musa, his half-sister Shams Ubaid the wife of Shabbetai the Sicilian, and her mother Sutaita, acquit Tsarafa, the widow of Jacob from an obligation to them, which probably arose from a case of inheritance.
Signed in autograph by [...] ben Abraham ha-kohen, Moses ben Jacob ha-Levi.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Sulzberger.

Keyword:

Jewish law

Right of property (Jewish law)

Court records

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420253503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3tb0zd4s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania