[Formulary of bills] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Bill of release (Formulary); Bills of Causa Mortis Gifts (formulary)

Name:

Isaac ben Abba Mari, active 12th century

Date:

1000s

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:

Forms (Jewish law); Wills (Jewish law); Obligations (Jewish law); Jewish law

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : folded vertically into columns; damaged, losses along creases

Rights:

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

Notes:

Recto, the 29 lines of writing fill the length of the folio left of the fold; verso, 33 lines of writing fill the right side of the fold, and continue in six and one half vertical lines on the left side; remainder is blank.; Sporadic vocalization. Recto: under the heading שכיב מרע, the text of a Bill of Partial Gift in Contemplation of Death. This version is practically identical to the one prescribed by Isaac ben Abba Mari in Sefer ha-ʹiṭur (Warsaw 1801 p. 86d; recorded by A. Gulak, Otsar ha-sheṭarot / Asher Gulak. Jerusalem : Defus ha-poʻAlim, 1926, p. 115 no. 127). Followed by שטר צוואה, the text of a Bill of Will in Contemplation of Death, also as in ʻItur (ibid. no. 126).; Verso: Under the heading שטר מחילה, Bill of release from obligations.; Hebrew. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 376

Collection:

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