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• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420973503681

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Fustat

Notes

• The writer is requesting support. He opens with Psalms XLI 2. The hand appears to be that of the court scribe Ḥalfon ha-Leṿi ben Menasheh; Over 250 legal documents written by Ḥalfon have been collected by Gershon Weiss, Legal documents written by the court clerk Ḥalfon ben Menasheh, 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; It is possible that the writer had Ḥalfon write this document, to show official approval and support for his collecting of donations. The fragment is missing the signatures and address.
   
• Condition: fragment, torn, from right edge, mostly faded, illegible; marginalia; verso is blank.
   

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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

• Judeo-Arabic letters

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