Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 353: Court document Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 353: 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 fragment from a document, most of the details are missing. The writer declares that he has sold a quarter of his court which he inherited; Mention is made of the Erets Israeli synagogue, probably the one in Fustat that housed the Genizah: במבוי בית הכנסת שלשמיין. The gold coins gained from this sale are to repay a loan, whose time is mentioned as beginning in Ab of the year (Selucid) [1]308 (=997). Condition: fragment, damaged losses from all edges, faded; verso is blank. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 353 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420313503681 Hebrew Court document

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 15.2 X 17.8 cm Lines: 14 extant (recto); ruling method: only left rule is extant; justified by stretching last character. Hebrew Oriental square Material applied: black ink

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