Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Other related names

• Halfon ben Menasse, fl. 1100-1138., scribe

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Alternate identifiers

• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420383503681

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Origin

Place

Fustat

Notes

• A legal document in Judeo-Arabic. The named parties involved are Moses ha-Kohen, Abu Mantsur, and Abu Saʻad. The subject is a business transaction between them; The hand is recognized as that of the court scribe Ḥalfon ha-Leṿi ben Menasheh. 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.
   
• Condition: fragment, losses along all edges; bleeding from recto through to verso; verso is blank.
   

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Material applied: black ink

Script

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Court records

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

  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/.

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  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode