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