Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 343: Court record Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 343: Court record 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/. In the right margin of the recto is an additional inscription in diagonal lines in the opposite direction of the main inscription, as is common in mail items; fol. appears to be folded as a mail item, but there is no address nor delivery instruction; A record in Judeo-Arabic, from the court of Matsliaḥ ha-Kohen Gaʾon, (mentioned in ll. 2, 14, 16, 20) who served in this capacity between 1127-1138. There are no signatures, which indicates that this is not a valid document, rather a court record or letter; 20 dinar has been presented in Alexandria by an honorable S[amuel ben N]issim (l. 9), is to be distributed among the widow and orphans of an unspecified man, recently deceased. Condition: damaged losses from upper left edges; folded as a mail item. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 343 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420213503681 Judeo-Arabic Court record

Paper

 26 X 18.1 cm Lines: 27 extant (recto), 3 (verso). Hebrew Oriental semi-cursive Material applied: black ink

Between 1127 and 1138

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