Legal document: BL OR 12136.1

Legal document BL OR 12136.1

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BL OR 12136.1
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Aramaic
Hebrew

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Recto: Dedication of a Torah with Targum to the Babylonian synagogue. Location: Fustat. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1403 Seleucid, which is October-November 1091 CE. There are several names: Elʿazar b. Yosef... Yefet b. Menashshe and his mother Ḥasana bt. Saʿdān and her niece. Verso: an unfinished draft or copy, the first lines of a legal deed from Fustat, dated Monday 5th of Heshvan 1403 Sel. (so the same month as the dedication on recto). The deed was written under the authority of David b. Daniel, and it's the earliest known appearance of his title "head of all diaspora" (rosh galuyot kol Yisrael), three weeks earlier than ENA 4020.47r which was pointed out by Gil.

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British Library
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BM Or 12136, f. 1; BM Or 12136, fol. 1
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Translation

Moshe Yagur, Unpublished transcription (n.p., 2023).

verso

בתרין בשבה דהוא חמשה יומי בירח מרחשון דשנת אלפא

וארבע מאה ותלאת שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בפס//ט//אט

מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה חצר בבי דינא כא לאדננו

ונשיאנו דו[יד הנשיא ב]ן דניאל ראש גלויות כל ישראל אלהינו יאריך

ימיו בטוב ושנותיו בנעימים

British Library, BL OR 12136.1. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/19135/, accessed December 11, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/19135/