Shelomo b. Shemuʾel Somekh ha-Kohen
Description / Bio
Court scribe who served within the Rabbanite community of Cairo during the latter half of the seventeenth century. Shelomo was the scion to a family in which the legal scribal profession was passed down for at least three and, possibly, four generations: his great-grandfather's scribal production is only attested in one brief document. Most notably, Shelomo appears as a presiding witness and court scribe throughout many entries in BL OR 6356.1-16, the largest Rabbanite court register known to have survived from early modern Cairo (it contains ~75 distinct entries).