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Tag: halfon b. menashshe
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Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps notes for the drawing up of a document. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involving Yosef b. Yehuda and Abū Saʿd b. Abū Yaʿqūb. Lists the names of witnesses (but not signatures): Avraham b. Elʿazar and Ṭahor b. Yeshuʿa.
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps notes for the drawing up of a document. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Reused for Hebrew literary text (in a different hand).
Verso: Fragment from a deed of betrothal (qiddushin). In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: 1100–38. The marriage will take place on Shabbat Naḥamu. The man may be named Moshe (last line). He will only make her live in a neighborhood of righteous people. Another of the stipulations involves her mother.
End of a letter written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Fragment from a bill of release. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Drawn up under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. Dating: 1127–38 CE. Abū l-Makārim Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen releases Berakhot ha-Levi from claims.
Minute fragment- opening words of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Drawn up under the authority of the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh (ca. 1112–26 CE). It is a testimony that was delivered before the two permanent judges in Fustat who were appointed by the late Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya and by his son Moshe (for similar examples, see Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, p. 275 note 13). Concerning what happened after the death of Abū l-Faḍl ʿAmram b. Raḥamim. The continuation is mostly missing. Mentions the blessed congregation of Fustat; a woman who paid a large sum out of her own money; the mother of Abū l-Faḍl who is a widow; and someone called al-Rayyis al-Jalīl.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Involves Abū l-Faraj Netanel, who dies; the sister of Shela ha-Kohen; Hiba Ibn al-Shāmī; Sitt al-Nasab, Sitt al-Fakhr, Faḍāʾil, Abū l-Faraj known as Nisṭās b. Yeshuʿa the elder (see T-S 12.174 for either the same person or a family member). Regarding inheritance. Join: Oded Zinger.
Fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi under the authority of Masliah Gaon/ Only part of the year is preserved 144[.] = 1130-1138.
Legal deed written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Small fragment (lower left corner). Mentions: al-ʿadanī ("from Aden," either a commodity or a person); bales of lac; Abū Saʿīd; goods worth 700 dinars deposited in a warehouse by Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd with Sālim; and Isḥāq al-Nafūsī (a well-known India trader). Two copies of this deed were written, one to stay in Fustat and one to travel "with him." Also signed by [Avraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver the descendant of Shem]aʿyahu Gaon. AA. ASE.
Fragment a bill of compromise written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Small fragment from a legal deed regarding a passageway belong Efraim the Elder and his wife (?). Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dates: 1100–38). Fragment (upper right corner). Moshe b. Shelomo makes a declaration in favor of Natan b. [...]. Concerns half of something (a house? a shop?) located in al-Sūq al-Kabir.
Court record in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Ḥasana bt. Yehuda demands the possessions of her brother Shemarya/Maḥfūẓ from his widow Sitt al-Ahl bt. Avraham.This Ḥasana is also known from ENA 2727.18d (published by MAF, Polygyny, p. 119).
Small strip from a bill of release by a woman to her husband Sasson in relating to her ketubah. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Recto mentions: two orphans, the release of a buyer, a guarantee, Sitt al-Ḥusn, Sitt al-Nasab, Abū l-Faraj, 40 dinars. Verso is probably a draft and mentions: a declaration made by Sitt al-Nasab bt. Shela ha-Kohen in favor of Yeshuʿa known as Nisṭāṭ or Niṣṭās (cf. T-S NS 224.18 + T-S NS 225.25c and T-S 12.174). Recto looks like it could be a join with T-S NS 224.18 + T-S NS 225.25c, but the versos do not much. In any case, they are probably related.
Long and narrow strip from the right side of items belong to Dalal- probably dowry list. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Right part of a legal deed regarding the selling of silk, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
An agreement between the bride's mother and a groom-to-be for cancelation of the engagement . She return to him 5 dinar. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper right corner). Concerning the son of the late Abū l-Faḍl. Shela b. Yefet and possibly the inheritance of a house. Also mentions somebody's wife named Turfa bt. Yefet, who is probably the sister of Shela. (See T-S 12.488 for her ketubba, which is dated Tuesday, 28 Sivan, which fits either 1111 or 1115 CE.) Two witnesses were summoned: Ḥalfon b. [...], and Avraham b. Ṣedaqa.
