University of Pennsylvania, Halper 336

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25764

Shelfmark:

Halper 336

Title:

Court document

Document

Place:

Fustat

Old Cairo TGN

Date:

May 2, 1047

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Aramaic WIKIDATA

Material:

Damaged, losses in left edge and lower left corner, faded; verso is blank

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : Damaged, losses in left edge and lower left corner, faded; verso is blank

Note:

A record in Judeo-Arabic regarding a compound in the Qatsr al-Sham quarter of Fustat, one sixth of which has been dedicated (waqf) to the two Rabbanite Synagogues of Fustat, the Babylonian and the Erets Israeli. Issued by Saʻadia ben R. Ephraim he-ḥaver.
The lower half of the document is the court validation of the above, in legal Aramaic, written by a different hand. Here, in addition to Saʻadia, more witnesses are listed, Joseph ben Jacob (ʻAwkal?); Baqaʻ ha-kohen ben Mukhtar; Yeshuah ha-Levi ben Solomon.
The validation is signed with the autographs of representatives of both synagogues, Sahlan ben Abraham (Babylonian, see the list of judges, Goitein: A Mediterranean Society / S.D Goitein. Berkeley : Univ Calif Press, 1967-1993, vol. 2 Appendix D, no. 6; E. Bareket: Shafrir Mitsraim / Elinoar Bareḳet. Tel Aviv : University of Tel Aviv, 1995, p. 172-188 = Fustat on the Nile, Leiden, 1999, pp...
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Sulzberger.

Keyword:

Jewish law

Court records

Depositions

Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Jewish law)

Civil procedure (Jewish law)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420143503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p33r0qc1m/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania