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[Court document] : manuscript

Metadata

DS ID:

DS26171

Shelfmark:

Halper 356

Title:

Court document

Document

Scribe:

Yeḥiʾel ben Yehudah

Place:

Orient

Date:

12th century-13th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Aramaic WIKIDATA

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

fragment, damaged, losses from top; folded widthwise at least three times; Hebrew on verso in different hand

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : fragment, damaged, losses from top; folded widthwise at least three times; Hebrew on verso in different hand

Note:

In the Hebrew poetic inscription on the verso, verse endings denoted by a punctus; each strophe begins a new paragraph.
A contract in Judeo-Arabic, ending in legal Aramaic. It is signed by Moses ben Aaron ha-kohen. He is also signed as a judge in a court document in Cambridge TS J16.11. The witnesses signed are ʻEli ha-kohen and Sulayman ben Yeshuah.
Under the signatures, beneath the bottom fold, is postscript, declaring that ʻAli Abul'Farj will submit this document to Joseph ben Abul'Farj. Followed by the signature of the scribe Jeḥiel ben Judah.
On the verso, written by a different hand, is a fragment from a collection of piyyuṭim.
Judah ha-Levi's שובי נפשי למנוחיך.יקרה מיקר יוצרך לקוחה (in the Diṿan / Yehudah ben Shemuʾel, ha-Leṿi ; Heinrich Brody [ed.]. Berlin : Ḥevrat Meḳitse nirdamin, 1910- , vol. III, no. 17, pp. 35-36), the fragment starts in the fifth verse.
Under the heading בסיט, Solomon ibn Gabirol's ששוני רב בך שוכן מעוני (in D. Yarden's: Shire ha-ḳodseh le-Ibn Gavirol / Dov Yarden [ed.]. Jerusalem : 1986, vol. II, p 471-472).
In the 7th line from the bottom, a unknown poem, possibly a reshut, that starts שבחך עלי לבי הק[...]ם. Six verses rhymed קים-. The acrostic signature reads שמואל לוי.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Jewish law

Contracts (Jewish law)

Court records

Piyutim

Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420343503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3x34n976/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania