[Court document] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Business document

Name:

Abraham ben Nathan, active 11th century-12th century; Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 352

Date:

1100s

Language:

Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew; Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)

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:

Court records; Business records; Jewish law

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : fragment, damaged, triangular in shape; losses, faded; verso is blank

Rights:

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

Notes:

The upper-left corner of a document. The first two digits of the date (=Monday, of the year...66 of the Seleucid era [Halper, l.2]) and the members of the court are missing. Many laudatory terms, in Hebrew, appear in the first lines, including an unusual one, צינצנת המן. The rest of the content is in legal Aramaic.; The names Sheik Abu'l-Rabiʻa (l.6) ...ha-Kohen (l.7), Abu'l-Fakhar or Abu'l-Fikr (אבו אלפכר, l.8), and Abu'l-Faraj (l.11) are preserved.; Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 352