Cairo Genizah : Legal document

Legal document (T-S NS J27)

Court records and notes in the hand of the judge Nathan b. Samuel, including the estate inventory of Abū l-Barakāt Ibn al-Šarābī (including a huge library containing 200 bound codices), payment of a debt, an instruction to charge the community fund with 75 dirhams, and the sale of a house. Ca. 1143 CE.

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Physical Location: Cambridge University Library
Classmark: T-S NS J27
Subject(s): Cairo Genizah
Scribe(s): Nathan b. Samuel (judge); Abū l-Barakāt Ibn al-Šarābī
Date of Creation: 1143 CE
Language(s): Judaeo-Arabic
Donor(s): Schechter, S. (Solomon), 1847-1915; Taylor, Charles, 1840-1908
Extent: 2 leaves (bifolium). Leaf height: 17.3 cm, width: 24.7 cm.
Material: Paper
Condition: Badly torn, stained, rubbed
Layout: 26 lines
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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Information about this document

Physical Location: Cambridge University Library
Classmark: T-S NS J27
Subject(s): Cairo Genizah
Scribe(s): Nathan b. Samuel (judge); Abū l-Barakāt Ibn al-Šarābī
Date of Creation: 1143 CE
Language(s): Judaeo-Arabic
Donor(s): Schechter, S. (Solomon), 1847-1915; Taylor, Charles, 1840-1908
Extent: 2 leaves (bifolium). Leaf height: 17.3 cm, width: 24.7 cm.
Material: Paper
Condition: Badly torn, stained, rubbed
Layout: 26 lines
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