COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
A 284 - 2
Obverse:
A 284 - 1
Image Number:
JRL050136dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject:
Letters
Creator:
Abu Nasr b. Abraham (12th cent.)
Creator Role:
Author
Creator Role:
Scribe
Description:
Letter written on the sender's way to India
Creation site:
Eritrea: Semēnawī K’eyih Bahrī: Dahlak Archipelago
Date created:
12th century
People covered:
Abu Nasr al-Halabi
People covered:
Ibn Yahya
People covered:
Jacob
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
72 mm
Item width:
75 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Technique used:
Handwriting
Interrelation fragments:
See New York, Jewish Theological Seminary, ENA NS 21, f. 14 for the same author/scribe
Bibliographic Reference:
Shaked, S., A tentative bibliography of Geniza documents, p. 181.
Bibliographic Reference:
Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean society, 6 vols. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1967-93). Cf. (incl. vol. 5, pp. 152-5).
Bibliographic Reference:
Goitein, S.D., Letters of medieval Jewish traders, pp. 9, 259-63. Cf.
Notes:
8 lines. Greetings to a number of people. Dated the 6th of Av. Page meant to be turned vertically. Shaked refers to Goitein's unpublished 'India book' (94), but identifies the hand incorrectly as that of (Abu Sa`id) Halfon b. Nethanel (ha-Levi, 12th cent.).
Discovery site:
Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
Current repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository:
Moses Gaster
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Fragments
Image rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Access rights:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number:
A00284-2
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2008-05-14
Date: added:
2009-02
Metadata language:
eng-GB
