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Tag: halfon b. menashshe
566 records found
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Lease contract for an entire top-floor apartment rented by Abu al-Ḥasan Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Menashshe. from Abu al-Fadl Mevorakh b. Yefet. The place is described in great detail. (Information from Goitein's index cards). Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Recto: Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Apparently a released granted by Muvḥar to Berakhot.
Verso: Accounts for the year 1427 Seleucid, which is 1115/16 CE. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. May be related to recto.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: [14]38 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE. Involves [...] b. ʿAmram and Nuʿmān ha-Kohen.
Deathbed will. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 29 Kislev 1448 Seleucid, which is 1136/37 CE. The testator mentions his niece (brother's daughter) Sitt al-Fakhr.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Saadya ha-Kohen acknowledges to have received from Abu al-Makarim a large silver plate (siniya) and acquits him from everything he owed him. Dated Tevet 1437/November-December, 1125 in Fustat.
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Apparently a settling of accounts between merchants. Mentions: lac and myrobalan in Tripoli (Syria); Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm b. [...]; ʿAkkā (Acre). Needs further examination.
Berakhot b. Saadya receives in December 1126 from Abu Ishaq Avraham b. Sasson al-Mahalli, the perfumer, a loan of 32 dinars to be paid back by Passover 1127, which constitutes a term of 3.5 months. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 258, and from Goitein's index cards). Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi.
Legal fragment. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involving Abū l-Baqā' and the late Abū l-Riḍā, who had business dealings in Yemen. Needs further examination.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Separate documents on recto and on verso. The document on recto deals with the sale of a dār in the 'alley of lupine (turmus).' The document on verso involves a woman named [...] b. Ḥananya known as Bint Ibn ʿAṭā'.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel or Natan b. Shelomo? Drawn up under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (1140–59). Involves Abū l-Faraj Menaḥem, a husband and a wife, and Yosef ha-Kohen. Needs further examination. (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Oded Zinger.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves Abū Naṣr and Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: First third of Elul 1444 Seleucid, which is 1133 CE. Under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. Witnesses (both names in the hand of Ḥalfon): Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Needs further examination for content. FGP says that this long document was partially edited by Avinoam Yellin in 1925. Transcription awaiting digitization
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Debt contract. Debtor: Ṣibyān b. Abū Ṣaʿd Efrayim b. Ṣibyān ha-Kohen. Creditor: Abū l-Riḍā Netanel b. Yeshuʿa. Sum: 11 dinars, which Ṣibyān can spend any way he wants. Ṣibyān is probably the grandson of Ṣibyān ha-Kohen b. Seʿadya (active 1040–44). (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.) Join: Alan Elbaum.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Three fragments from the lower part of the document. Dated: Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid, which is December 1123–January 1124 CE. Involves: A deceased Sar Shalom; Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi Rosh ha-Qahal known as al-Jubaylī; Natan/Hiba ha-Levi; and Abū l-Riḍā. Abū l-Faraj agrees to deposit with Abū l-Riḍā a debt contract worth 75(?) dinars which are owed to him by Natan; the debt contract is dated the first decade of Dhū l-Qiʿda 517 AH, corresponding to Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid; its witnesses are Ibn al-Fāʾiqī and Ibn al-Amadī. Abū l-Faraj relinquishes his right to sue Natan for the total unless the government appropriates (yaʿtariḍ) from Abū l-Faraj anything pertaining to the estate of Sar Shalom, specifically the money that he (Abū l-Faraj?) transferred to his (Abū l-Faraj's? or Sar Shalom's?) son Zikrī. If the government does interfere, Abū l-Faraj has the right to retrieve the document from Abū l-Riḍā with the authorization of the court (i.e., after they have validated the claim that the government took the money), and Natan will have to pay. The witnesses testify that the debt contract has been deposited with Abū l-Riḍā. Two copies of the present document were drawn up, one for Abū l-Faraj and one for Natan ha-Levi. The witness signatures are not preserved on these fragments, though the top of one signature might be barely visible on T-S 8.153. Joins: Alan Elbaum. ASE
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Shortly after 511 AH, which is 1117/18 CE. (This is in line 3.) Mentions three burniyyas of civet perfume (written as zabad and zabada; cf. India Book III, doc. 29, ll. 8,10 and III, doc. 2, verso, l. 2). People include: Mūsā al-Nafūsī, al-Faqīh al-Siqillī, and Abū Saʿīd Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq (Rosh ha-Qehillot). Sums of money listed are in the tens of dinars.
Small blurred fragment of a court record, signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (dated docs. 1100-1138) and dealing with a sum of money which had been mentioned in a letter. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Legal agreement between spouses on the question of a second wife. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1130–38 CE.
