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Tag: halfon b. menashshe
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Completely damaged page from what use to be a Bible. The ink was corrosive so almost nothing left. On top of the page Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi wrote: קודש לאלהי ישראל לכניסת הבבליין במצר, so this bible belonged to the Babylonian synagogue in Fustat. AA
Legal document mentioning a ketubba and Abū l-Alā. (Information from CUDL)
Bill of sale for a female slave, probably. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information in part from CUDL and from Craig Perry.)
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Minute fragment. A beginning of a letter addressed to Mevorakh b. Saadya written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi. AA
Small fragment from a ketubah by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi, only part of the dowry list is preserved. JA. AA
A damaged bill of divorce (get). The husband named Zedaqa, the wife’s name is not preserved. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi who signed it together with Ishaq b. Shemuel the Spaniard. AA
Bottom part from a legal document written under the jurisdiction of Masliah Gaon (although his name does not appear) by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi, so can be dated to 1127-1138. AA
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). AA
Legal document mentioning Sitt al-Dār bat Saʿadya written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). AA
Minute fragment, a few incomplete words, but from what is preserved we can tell it is a ketubbah, contains the dowry section and probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi. AA
Rabbinic discussion, possibly halakhic, with citations from the Talmud. Deals with loans. In the Hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. We have some Geonic responsa that he copied. So it might also be from responsum. AA and CUDL
Letter from Ṣadaqa Sibāʿ b. Yosef (or Ḥasan?) to Hibat Allāh b. Men[aḥem?] al-Jubaylī in Alexandria. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Only the very beginning and the address are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragments of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Other parts of the same document: CUL T-S AS 151.242-243, 247-251, 255-256. Join by Moshe Yagur and Oded Zinger. The document is another version of the testimony achieved by eavesdropping on Jayyida and her business partner - the case is told also in ENA NS 16.22 and OX Bodl. MS heb. e 94/19+25. MY.
Legal document, fragmentary, calling for someone to give evidence about a certain person's misconduct and who is subject to a herem (excommunication). (Information from Goitein's index cards). Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Twitch divination (palmomancy) fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. See Wagner, E., & Bohak, G. (2008). T-S AS 157.50: A twitch divination text in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, April 2008]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.48226.
Digest of a legal document. Probably in the cursive hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. For a partnership in a shop in New Cairo. One partner is Hiba b. Mevorakh. The partnership will last for 2 years beginning from Kislev 1436 Seleucid (November/December 1124 CE). AA
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Small fragment from the end. Essentially no details are preserved. AA
A list of item, mostly textiles, might be from a dowry list, written by Halfon b. Manashese Halevi
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Fragment (thin vertical strip). Writing on both recto and verso. Location: Fustat. It is very difficult to extract any meaningful information. Mentions a Gaʾon and a declaration made by a woman.
