Legal document: Yevr.-Arab. I 328

Legal document Yevr.-Arab. I 328

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Yevr.-Arab. I 328
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Arabic
Hebrew
Judaeo-Arabic

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Court notebook from the Qaraite court of Cairo that was based in the Dar Simḥa synagogue. Spanning the dates 1560–75 CE. 69 pages. Contains 190 documents in Judaeo-Arabic, 6 documents in Hebrew, and 1 document in Arabic script. Discussed in depth with two sample transcriptions by Haggai Ben-Shammai in "New Sources for the History of the Karaites in Sixteenth-Century Egypt (A Preliminary Description)" (Hebrew), Ginzei Qedem 2 (2006), pp.85–97.

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National Library of Russia, Firkovitch (Firk.); Antonin
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In PGP since 2020
National Library of Russia, Firkovitch (Firk.); Antonin, Yevr.-Arab. I 328. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/31676/, accessed November 21, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/31676/