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Tag: halfon b. menashshe?
4 records found
Legal fragment involving half of a house and Elazar who is known as Manṣūr al-Zajjāj. Needs examination. May be related to Moss. VII,116.1, which also involves Elʿazar/Manṣūr al-Zajjāj.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Involves a certain Rosh ha-Qehillot; the orphans of Tamīm ha-Kohen; a list of luxury goods (e.g. ambergris and pearl bracelets); and a certain Moshe. Needs examination.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1120-1150 CE, based on the mention of Yakhin b. Netan'el Rosh ha-Qehillot. This range may be narrowed to 1120–38 if Ḥalfon b. Menashshe is the scribe. The document is a release for a certain India merchant [...] b. Rajā ha-Zaqen from any potential claim against him from the orphans of his deceased traveling companion, and from having to give any further testimony or make any vow. The document explains that the merchant acted with great valor hiding his companion's merchandise from the rulers of Dahlak who would have confiscated it—and would have killed the merchant himself if they had found out what he had done. This merchant also made haste to go to the court and declare all the goods belonging to his companion (and therefore his orphans) as soon as he returned to Fustat (l. 10), and even mentioned "several things that were not in the account ledger (daftar al-ḥisāb)." Information in part from Goitein's attached discussion, transcription, and translation. ASE.
Recto: Remnants of three words in enormous calligraphic Arabic script, one of which is "maṣāliḥ." Verso: Draft of a legal document involving Yeshuʿa ha-Zaqen b. Shelomo.
