University of Pennsylvania, Halper 365

Images provided by hosting institution via

Metadata

DS ID:

DS25878

Shelfmark:

Halper 365

Title:

Court document

Document

Scribe:

Hilel ben Eli

Place:

Fustat. 1066-1108?

Old Cairo TGN

Date:

1066-1108

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Aramaic WIKIDATA

Material:

nearly complete, damaged, torn, faded; verso is blank; folded widthwise into four equal quarters

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : nearly complete, damaged, torn, faded; verso is blank; folded widthwise into four equal quarters

Note:

A document in Judeo-Arabic, mixed with legal Aramaic. Sitt al-Dar, wife of Ṣedaka ha-Levi, promises to comply with the stipulation of her late brother (also named Ṣedaka), that she should provide for her mother and for her mother's funeral.
She also promised to pay her brother Hiba abu Saʻid 10 dinar if he appeared in the country. Her husband confirms, and stands security for her promise.
The document is signed by the court of Joseph "the expert" ben Elʹazar, Elʹazar ha-kohen he-Ḥazzan ben Eli he-Ḥaver, Joseph ha-kohen ben Nissim, and in the corner, in a different hand, Yakhin ben Abraham.
The first of these is signed on a draft of a court document issued in 1085 in Fustat, along with Mevasser ben Ḥalfon, in Oxford Bodleian Heb. d. 66 (Cowely 2878) fol. 133 verso.
The hand of the scribe is recognized as that of Hillel ben Eli. Dated documents written by him range from 1066-1108 (Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. II, p. 231).
Published by Gershon Weiss: Documents written by Hillel ben Eli, a study in the diplomatics of the Cairo Geniza (Thesis (M.A.) in Oriental Studies--Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), University of Pennsylvania, 1967 (no. 55).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Jewish law

Declaration of intention

Court records

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420433503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3rb6wm49/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania