[Court document] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Official record of legal declaration

Contributor:

Mevaśer ben Avraham, ha-Kohen (witness); Avraham ben Mosheh, Melamed (witness, scribe); Abraham ben Nathan, active 11th century-12th century (witness)

Name:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 351

Date:

1098

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Provenance:

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

Subject:

Court records; Taxes, Farming of; Jewish law

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : damaged, losses along all edges, folded widthwise into at least five equal parts; verso is blank

Rights:

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

Notes:

A legal declaration in Judeo-Arabic. Signed in autograph by the court of Mevasser ha-kohen ben Abraham, Abraham ben Moses, who appears to be the scribe of this document, Abraham ben Nathan ("Av ha-Yeshiva", see the list of judges assembled by S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society vol. II Appendix D, no. 14) whose signature appears on documents dated 1098-1114.; A young man, Khatsab ben Abu Natsr, claims goods that he gave as a pledge on a loan from Moses Sharaji, who had died. The tax farmers of the market protested, as Khatsab owed them taxes. In this declaration, Khatsab agrees to pay them 2 dinar in cash and 5 and five sixth dinar in installments.; These payment orders were transferred to al-Ḥakīm (אלחכים), the representative of the merchants, who would pay the taxes when he payed the orphans of Moses, enabling the delivery of the goods to Khatsab.; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 351