Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 342: Court document (draft) Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 342: Court document (draft) 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/. 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 Na'im. Condition: connected to edge of another folio, as if bifolium from court codex; damaged, faded, losses at bottom, torn. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 342 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420203503681 Judeo-Arabic Court document (draft) scribe Halfon ben Menasse, fl. 1100-1138.

Paper

 19 X 12.9 cm Columns: 1; lines: 25 extant. Hebrew Oriental semi-cursive Material applied: black ink

1127-1138?

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