University of Pennsylvania, Halper 421

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25768

Shelfmark:

Halper 421

Title:

Note to a Judge ʻAli, Nazir ha-maśkilim

Hebrew text

Place:

Fustat

Old Cairo TGN

Date:

early 12th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

losses along left edge; verso is blank

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : losses along left edge; verso is blank

Note:

No signature or address, as this was probably delivered personally, or attached to another document.
A note to the judge ʻAli, referred to here as Nazir ha-maśkilim. ("Crown of the Enlightened"). This title is bestowed on ʻAli ha-Leṿi ben Netanʾel of the early 12th century. See, in the list of judges assembled by S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society vol. II Appendix D, no. 16; Kiryat Sefer v. 41 (1965-1966), p. 267, note 19.
He served in the court of the Erets Israeli Community in Fustat in 1133. Here he is requested to transmit an enclosed dirahm to a certain ibn Simon, and to endorse a bill of release issued by a judge in Minyat Zifta.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

ʻAli, ha-Dayan, -1139?

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940421003503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3s17tb5z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania