[Court document] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Business document

Contributor:

Halfon ben Menasse, active 1100-1138 (scribe)

Date:

1100s

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Provenance:

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

Subject:

Mosheh, ha-Kohen; Abu Mantsur; Abu Saʻad; Court records; Vendors and purchasers (Jewish law); Jewish law

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : fragment, losses along all edges; bleeding from recto through to verso; verso is blank

Rights:

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

Notes:

A legal document in Judeo-Arabic. The named parties involved are Moses ha-Kohen, Abu Mantsur, and Abu Saʻad. The subject is a business transaction between them.; The hand is recognized as that of the court scribe Ḥalfon ha-Leṿi ben Menasheh. Over 250 such documents have been collected by Gershon Weiss, Legal documents written by the court clerk Halfon Ben Manasse, dated 1100-1138, a study in the diplomatics of the Cairo Geniza (Thesis (Ph.D.) in Oriental Studies--Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), University of Pennsylvania, 1970.; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 360

Collection:

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