[Court document (draft)] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Court record book; Litigation settlement

Contributor:

Halfon ben Manasse, active 1100-1138 (scribe)

Name:

Matsliaḥ, ha-Kohen, 12th century

Date:

1127

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Turfa bat ʹAmram Trials, litigation, etc; Shabetai ben Yosef, he-Ḥazan Trials, litigation, etc; Naʹim; Court records; Actions and defenses; Jewish law

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Trial and arbitral proceedings; books

Physical Description:

1 folio : connected to edge of another folio, as if bifolium from court codex; damaged, faded, losses at bottom, torn

Rights:

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

Notes:

Written on both sides; diagonal scratch marks, signifying invalidation of the document.; A Judeo-Arabic draft from the record book of the Court of Matsliaḥ ha-Kohen Gaʾon, (l. 1: בית דין הגדול של אדוננו מצליח הכהן ראש [...]ע) who served in this capacity between 1127-1138.; The hand is recognized as that of the court scribe Ḥalfon ha-Levi ben Menashe. 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.; The draft records in Judeo-Arabic, a litigation settlement between Shabetai ha-Ḥazzan ben Joseph and his wife, Turfa daughter of ʹAmram. The object of the litigation includes clothes, house wares and a slave girl named Naʻim.; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 342

Collection:

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