[Court document] : manuscript

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1237

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

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:

Yeḥiʾel, ha-Dayan; Court records; Jewish law; Shehitah -- Early works to 1800; Shehitah; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses

Resource Type:

Text

Physical Description:

1 folio : fragment, right side only, torn lengthwise; verso is blank

Rights:

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

Notes:

The right side of an official court document, produced under the auspices of the Nagid. The first two digits of the date and the name of the Nagid are in the missing left side. He is referred to as נר המערבי.; The subject is the ritual slaughter preformed by R. Yeḥiel אלדיין. Perhaps this is R. Yeḥiel "the Judge" ben Eliakim who served under Abraham Maimonides in the early 13th century (see Goitein, A Mediterranean Society vol. II, pp. 485-488, and in the list of judges, ibid. Appendix D, no. 30).; If so, than the date (in l. 3) is Seleucid [15]48 (=1237), the last year of Abraham Maimonides' reign. No signatures remain/appear in this fragment.; Hebrew. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 361

Collection:

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