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Responsa collection

Damaged and torn fragment. On recto part from a legal query regarding a release of a slavegirl, a debt, an oath, a charity that should be given and a slander. On verso a letter asking advice what to do with R. Hananel's mother's slavegirl. AA

Responsum of Maimonides. Blau edition #310

Responsum of Maimonides. Blau edition #308

Responsa. Avkat Rochel no. 2-4. Published by Glick, Seridey Teshuvot, pp. 32-47. AA

See PGP 15875

Responsum written in a late hand.

Table of contents of a responsa collection

Table of contents of a responsa collection

Table of contents of a responsa collection

Table of contents of a responsa collection - Geonic responsa - mentioning questions from Fez to Rabbi Sherira and others

Official document of some kind. In Persian? There are eleven different seal imprints. Dated: 1201 AH = 1786/87 CE according to the last line of the document itself. One of the inscriptions at the top is dated 28 Rabiʿ I 1266 AH = 11 February 1850 CE. Needs further examination.

Engagement deed. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Persian. Groom: Yaʿaqov b. Agha Yiṣḥaq. Bride; Jawhar Khanom bt. Aharon. Currencies: toman and maybe mithqal (מתקליס).

Geonic responsa. Published by Marmorstein, p. 10-12. The scribe is the one known to write many such rotolus for the owner known as Ibn al-Baqra (early 11th century). On recto a responsim marked as no. 4 (see Otzar Hageonim, Ketubot, p. 211, no. 532). At the bottom another responsum contonues on verso (the begining and end are missing) concerning the blessing on the wine before and after the meal (Otzar Hageonim, Berakhot, p. 96 no. 264). AA

Responsum on the type of vellum used for writing tefilin. Glick attributing the hand erroneously to Yosef b. Ya'aqov Rosh Haseder, but it is clearly written by Shlomo b. Shmuel b. Sa'adya (first half 13th century)

Responsa by RADBAZ, II, no. 839: 1. Resurrections of the dead 2. Regarding a Rabbi who excommunicated his student. Published by Glick, Sridei Teshuvot, 243-256

See PGP 15879

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (ca. 1000–38 CE). Fragment (upper right corner). Damaged bill of settlement. Involves a man named [...] b. Shelaḥya (שלחיה, a rare name) who is possibly a ḍā[min]; a Levi; and a lawsuit against another Levi for over 2000 of something. The one bringing the lawsuit may be Eliyya and the defendant may be Abū l-Surūr, but this is not definite without the join. The dispute has to do with coral. (A previous description said that there is also a Zekharya ha-Levi mentioned in this document.) AA. ASE.

Legal fragment. Dating: 12th-13th century. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions many people: Abū l-Raḍiyy; Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿīd b. Najā al-Ne'eman (namely Ulla ha-Levi ha-Parnas b. Yosef); and Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ. The word "maẓālim" also appears.

Bill of sale (FGP). Dated: Adar I 1445 Seleucid, which is 1134 CE.