Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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A 1043 - 1
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Obverse:
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A 1043 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL0705368dc
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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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Description:
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Letter addressed to a legal authority referred to as "our lord and gaon" discussing the marriage of Abu `Ala b. Abu 'l-Hassan the glassblower which took place in a gentile court
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People covered:
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Abu `Ala b. Abu 'l-Hassan al-Zujjaj
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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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170 mm
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Item width:
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92 mm
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Folio:
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1 / 1 leaf, recto
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Style Period:
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Oriental
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Ashtor (Strauss), Zion 7. Cf. p. 143.
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Freimann, A.H., Teshuvot rabenu Avraham ben ha-Rambam, 1937. Cf. no. 52.
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Notes:
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21 lines. Connected with this incident the letter writer also refers to the Karaites (?) and someone described as an apostate (possibly the glassblower is meant). The fact that the letter starts with the familiar panegyric salutations found in inquiries to Abraham Maimonides has led Ezra Chwat to surmise that this is a legal inquiry to him. The father Abu 'l-Hassan appears in a list of donors (see Ashtor, p. 143). See Freimann for a similar case in one of Abraham's responsa.
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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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A01043-1
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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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2007-03-27
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Date: added:
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2007-04
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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