University of Pennsylvania, Halper 371

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25699

Shelfmark:

Halper 371

Title:

Court document

Document

Place:

Cairo

Cairo TGN

Date:

Wed. Dec. 26, 1624

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

losses in right edge; verso is blank

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : losses in right edge; verso is blank

Note:

Text breaks denoted by a two hyphens.
Under the heading בעהד״י.
R. Judah Kohen ben R. Maimon agrees to serve as the trustee of the property of R. Khalifa ben Samuel, for the fee of 2,000 pieces of silver. If he breaks the agreement he will be paid only for the time he served. If Khalifa dismisses him he will be paid the full amount.
R. Moses Alashqar appears as a guarantor. The witnesses (who probably are also serving as a court) autographs: Isaiah Masʻoud ʻAmram, and Solomon "the Younger".
Written by the same court scribe that wrote Halper 370 (dated 1609, on a folio of nearly identical size) and Halper 362 (1626).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Court records

Mosheh Alshakar, 17th century

Jewish law

Khalifa ben Shemuʹel, 17th century

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420493503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3zw19b26/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania