Legal document; letter (T-S 16.171)
Recto: part of a Karaite legal document concerning the inheritance due to minors. Dated Tammuz 1315 (= 1004 CE). Three trustees (Aaron b. Solomon the moneychanger, Abū Bišr Nissi b. Aaron b. Baktawaya (בכתויה), and Joseph b. Yazdād (יזדאד)) of the finances of Sahl b. Joseph distribute his estate to his sons after he dies without leaving a will. The four sons are Abū l-Ḥusayn Joseph, Abū l-Ṭib Bišr, Abū Manṣūr Aaron, and Abū ʿImrān Moses (עמראן). The two youngest (Aaron and Moses) are minors and Husn bat Abū l-Tib Jacob b. Joseph b. Kušnām (כושנאם) and the trustees will continue to administer their share of their father’s estate. Verso: beginning of a draft letter from the (Rabbanite) community in Fusṭāṭ to a community in Sicily (מדינת צקליה).
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- Physical Location: Cambridge University Library
- Classmark: T-S 16.171
- Subject(s): Cairo Genizah
- Origin Place: Fusṭāṭ
- Date of Creation: 1004 CE
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Associated Name(s): Aaron b. Solomon the moneychanger; Abū Bišr Nissi b. Aaron b. Baktawaya; Joseph b. Yazdād; Sahl b. Joseph; Abū l-Ḥusayn Joseph b. Sahl b. Joseph; Abū l-Ṭib Bišr b. Sahl b. Joseph; Abū Manṣūr Aaron b. Sahl b. Joseph; Abū ʿImrān Moses b. Sahl b. Joseph; Husn bat Abū l-Tib Jacob b. Joseph b. Kušnām
- Extent: 1 leaf.
- Material: Parchment
- Condition: Badly torn, holes, stained
- Layout: 24 lines (recto); 23 lines (verso)
- Provenance: Donated by Dr Solomon Schechter and his patron Dr Charles Taylor in 1898 as part of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection
- Funding: The digitisation of the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection has been sponsored by the Jewish Manuscript Preservation Society, the Friedberg Genizah Project Inc., and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.
- Author(s) of the Record: CUL
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- Physical Location: Cambridge University Library
- Classmark: T-S 16.171
- Subject(s): Cairo Genizah
- Origin Place: Fusṭāṭ
- Date of Creation: 1004 CE
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Associated Name(s): Aaron b. Solomon the moneychanger; Abū Bišr Nissi b. Aaron b. Baktawaya; Joseph b. Yazdād; Sahl b. Joseph; Abū l-Ḥusayn Joseph b. Sahl b. Joseph; Abū l-Ṭib Bišr b. Sahl b. Joseph; Abū Manṣūr Aaron b. Sahl b. Joseph; Abū ʿImrān Moses b. Sahl b. Joseph; Husn bat Abū l-Tib Jacob b. Joseph b. Kušnām
- Extent: 1 leaf.
- Material: Parchment
- Condition: Badly torn, holes, stained
- Layout: 24 lines (recto); 23 lines (verso)
- Provenance: Donated by Dr Solomon Schechter and his patron Dr Charles Taylor in 1898 as part of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection
- Funding: The digitisation of the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection has been sponsored by the Jewish Manuscript Preservation Society, the Friedberg Genizah Project Inc., and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.
- Author(s) of the Record: CUL
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