Legal document: Halper 363

Description

A court record detailing an attack on a ḥazzan, his wife, and his children with a shoe (Information from Goitein’s index card) Upper part of a court record in Judaeo-Arabic, in which Abū Naṣr al-Ḥazzān files a complaint, that he, his wife and his children have been attacked. Afterwards, the witnesses Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver and ʿOvadya b. Shelomo testified of this attack, stating that the victim was beaten with a shoe (מדאס) on a Sunday. The former is probably the same Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver b. ʻAli he-Ḥaver, a witness in several Genizah documents, the earliest T-S 13J2.3 dated Dec. 1093, the latest Bodl. MS Heb. b. 12/4, dated Feb. 1102. His father, a Jerusalemite, is the author of numerous Genizah documents (23 documents related to ʻAli ha-kohen, published by M. Gil, Erets-Yiśraʾel ba-teḳufah ha-Muslemit ha-rishonan / Moshe Gil. Tel Aviv : University of Tel Aviv, 1983, vol. III, nos. 433-455, the last of which is dated 1071). (Information from Halper catalog.)