[Judeo-Arabic treatise on the sale of marital property (Bava batra 49b-50a); Lists of Talmudic laws on the limitation of sales] : manuscript
- Creator
- Ḥefeẓ ben Yaẓliʼaḥ, active 10th century
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 138
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 142
- Form
- books
- Date
- between 1000 and 1099
- Language
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subject
- Property (Jewish law)
- Jewish law
- Marital property (Jewish law)
- Extent
- 2 fols. : consecutive(?: folio 1 = Halper 142, folio 2 = Halper 138) ; losses from bottom edges, and internal edge of Halper 138
- Publisher
- [publisher not identified]
- Notes
- From a Gaonic Judeo-Arabic monograph based on Talmudic passages, presented in their original language, with Arabic narrative. No. 142 contains classified and numbered lists of Talmudic laws, on the limitations on sales.
- Fol. 1r (Halper 142) is a list of sales forbidden by halakhah, similar in concept, but not in content, to the tenth chapter of Ḥai ben Sherira's Kitab al-Shiraʹ wa-al-bayʹ.
- The fragment includes the eighth and ninth members of the list, the sale of slaves and animals to non-Jews, based on Gittin 44. The verso contains the second member of, presumably, a different list, on the limitations of a wife selling marital property, based on Mishnah Ketubbot VIII 1.
- Halper 138 (fol. 2?) contains an exposition of the Talmudic passage in Bava batra 49b-50a on the sale of marital property, possibly the continuation of the list on Halper 142 verso. May be from Ḥefeẓ ben Yaẓliʾaḥ's Book of Precepts.
- This may be from Samuel ben Ḥofni Gaon's monograph on the Laws of sales (Kitab al-buyu), a title that appears in Genizah booklists (See Sklare: Samuel ben Ḥofni and his cultural world / by David E. Sklare. Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996, p. 19).
- Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew
- See Cambridge TS Fa 2.1, from the introduction and the list of contents of the first 11 chapters of what may be this book. See also Cambridge TS Arab. 53.6.
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Related Work: Samuel ben Hophni, -1013. Kitab al-buyu.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3c53fk46
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 138
- Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 142
- Provenance
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
- Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
- Amram.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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