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[Court document] : manuscript

Alternate Title:
Official court document
Contributor:
Elʻazar ben Avraham, active 12th century (witness); Yeḥiyah ben Eliyah, active 12th century (witness)
Name:
Samuel ben Hananiah, active 12th century
Timespan:
To 1500
Date:
1164
Language:
Judeo-Arabic
Provenance:
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Sulzberger.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified]
Subject:
Abu ʻAmar Seʹadyah, ha-Leṿi; Abu Natser Shemuʹel, ha-Leṿi; Ḥalfon ben ʹal-Damyaṭi; Court records; Silk industry -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Jewish law; Silk industry; History
Resource Type:
Text
Form/Genre:
books
Physical Description:
1 folio : damaged, loss in upper left corner; verso is blank
Geographic Subject:
Egypt
Rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
A document in Judeo-Arabic and legal Hebrew, issued under the authority of Samuel (ben Ḥananyah) ha-Nagid. Documents referring to him as the Nagid date between 1140-1159.; The signatures are Yaḥiyah ben Elijah (autograph) and Elʻazar ben Abraham (autograph), whose handwriting is similar to that in the document and he might have written it. Elʻazar signs his autograph on a Ketubah issued under the authority of Matsliaḥ ha-kohen Gaon in 1134, found in Oxford Heb. b. 12 (Cowely 2875) fol. 1.; Abu Nasr Samuel ha-Levi b. Isaac sold local, Egyptian silk (l. 2 אלבלדי), which had been deposited by his uncle Ḥalfon ha-Levi ben [Nethanel] al-Dimyati with Abu ʻAmr Saʻadia ha-Levi b. Yakhin ("n" in small piece next to l. 4) as a pledge on a loan by Ḥalfon's late brother Eli . Saʻadia acquits Eli's sons of the debt of 25 dinar, paid for from part of the proceeds of the sale. The signatories confirm that the sale had been conducted properly.; Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Hebrew
Physical Location:
Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 344
Collection:
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)