Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 351: Court document Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 351: 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 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. Condition: damaged, losses along all edges, folded widthwise into at least five equal parts; verso is blank. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 351 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420293503681 Judeo-Arabic Court document scribe Avraham ben Mosheh, Melamed.

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 28 X 26 cm Lines: 16 extant (13 text, 2 signature, 1 postscript[?]) (recto); ruling method: left rule justified by stretching last character. Hebrew Oriental semi-square Material applied: black ink

1098-1114?

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