COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 3345 - 1
Obverse:
B 3345 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0702672dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic document
Subject:
Records
Description:
Certificate of the rabbinical court
Date created:
12th century?
People covered:
Perahya bar ?Katir al-?Halabi ?(...)daya
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
115 mm
Item width:
141 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Interrelation fragments:
Compare St. Petersburg, RNL, Evr. II A (Perahya ha-Zaken al-Halabi) and Cambridge, University Library, NS 320.17 (Perahya ben `Adaya)
Bibliographic Reference:
Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean society, 6 vols. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1967-93), vol. 4, p. 427 (Perahya ben `Adaya). Cf.
Notes:
13 lines. We know of a document dated 1158 that is signed by a certain Perahya ben `Adayah together with an officer of the rabbinical court, Mevorakh ben Nathan. Compare also the Perahya ha-Zaken al-Halabi, who corresponded with Rabbi Anatoli during Maimonides' generation.
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:
B03345-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-02-06
Date: added:
2007-05
Metadata language:
eng-GB
