University of Pennsylvania, Halper 466

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DS ID:

DS26179

Shelfmark:

Halper 466

Title:

List of contributors for the ransom of a captive from Antiochia

List of names

Place:

Cairo?

Cairo TGN

Date:

1100?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

damaged, losses along left edge, faded; folded lengthwise into two halves

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : damaged, losses along left edge, faded; folded lengthwise into two halves

Note:

Two complete columns fill the recto, a third fills three quarters of the left column on the verso. The columns are divided into 6 lists, according to the days of collection (or appeals), such as Shemini Atseret, and Monday the First of Marḥeshṿan, which appear at the head of each list. Three of the payments in column II were made through the banker Ṣadaqa al-ʻAttar. This scribe has also...
Much of the contents of the list were described by Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. II Appendix C no. 135 (pp. 507-508).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Registers (Lists)

Egypt

Jews

Jews--Charitable contributions

Charity laws and legislation (Jewish law)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940421423503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3gf0nf4f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania