University of Pennsylvania, Halper 402

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25684

Shelfmark:

Halper 402

Title:

Invenvtory list

Inventory

Place:

Orient

Date:

11th century-13th century?

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

lower left corner torn; folded lengthwise, columns separated (repaired)

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : lower left corner torn; folded lengthwise, columns separated (repaired)

Note:

A list of clothes and house wares returned by a divorced woman to her ex-husband Naḥman, after she had initially taken (or pilfered) them to the home of her brother, Yeshua (also referred to here as Abu'l-Faraj). Among the items, a pair of mats (l. 6), a ḥamil, or meal carrier (l. 7), a rug (l. 8), a table (l. 9), a mill (l. 12), water cups, a kneading trough and a boy's muzarra (l. 11-13).
Recto, left col. l. 11-12, and verso in Arabic characters.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Egypt

History

To 1500

House furnishings

Divorce (Jewish law)

Inventories

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420813503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p33f4m63h/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania