[Court record] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Letter from the court of Matsliaḥ ha-Kohen Gaʾon

Name:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 343

Date:

1127

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:

Shemuʹel ben Nisim; Matsliaḥ, ha-Kohen, 12th century; Court records; Jewish law

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : damaged losses from upper left edges; folded as a mail item

Rights:

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

Notes:

In the right margin of the recto is an additional inscription in diagonal lines in the opposite direction of the main inscription, as is common in mail items; fol. appears to be folded as a mail item, but there is no address nor delivery instruction.; A record in Judeo-Arabic, from the court of Matsliaḥ ha-Kohen Gaʾon, (mentioned in ll. 2, 14, 16, 20) who served in this capacity between 1127-1138. There are no signatures, which indicates that this is not a valid document, rather a court record or letter.; 20 dinar has been presented in Alexandria by an honorable S[amuel ben N]issim (l. 9), is to be distributed among the widow and orphans of an unspecified man, recently deceased.; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 343