Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 336: Court document Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 336: Court document are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. A record in Judeo-Arabic regarding a compound in the Qatsr al-Sham quarter of Fustat, one sixth of which has been dedicated (waqf) to the two Rabbanite Synagogues of Fustat, the Babylonian and the Erets Israeli. Issued by Sa'adia ben R. Ephraim he-ḥaver; The lower half of the document is the court validation of the above, in legal Aramaic, written by a different hand. Here, in addition to Sa'adia, more witnesses are listed, Joseph ben Jacob ('Awkal?); Baqa' ha-kohen ben Mukhtar; Yeshuah ha-Levi ben Solomon; The validation is signed with the autographs of representatives of both synagogues, Sahlan ben Abraham (Babylonian, see the list of judges, Goitein: A Mediterranean Society / S.D Goitein. Berkeley : Univ Calif Press, 1967-1993, vol. 2 Appendix D, no. 6; E. Bareket: Shafrir Mitsraim / Elinoar Bareḳet. Tel Aviv : University of Tel Aviv, 1995, p. 172-188 = Fustat on the Nile, Leiden, 1999, pp. 233-255) and Ephraim (Ze'iara) ben Shemarya (Erets Israeli, Goitein, ibid., no. 4; Bareket, ibid. pp. 100-121, idem. pp. 129-160). Condition: damaged, losses in left edge and lower left corner, faded; verso is blank. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 336 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420143503681 Judeo-Arabic; Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE) Court document

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Fustat Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library). Sulzberger. Court records