[Court document] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Record of a deed

Date:

1041

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Amram.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Naḥum ben Faraḥ, 11th century; Munah; Situnah; Inheritance and succession (Jewish law); Court records; Jewish law

Resource Type:

Text

Physical Description:

1 folio : damaged, torn; cropped on bottom edge, erasures; folded widthwise in equal quarters

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Cropped on bottom, after which the initial inscription was erased with four lines to signify its invalidation, and then recopied on the verso, in smaller writing to fit the new size of the folio.; Testimony that Naḥum ben Faraḥ deeds a court (חצר) in Ṣahrajt (Lower Egypt) to his unwed sisters Muna and Sittuna, as he was obligated to give them one tenth of his inheritance as maintenance.; Hebrew. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 335

Collection:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)