Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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L 75 - 1
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Obverse:
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L 75 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL050230dc
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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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Josiah ben Aaron (11th 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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Date created:
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c.1030
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People covered:
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Abu Bishr Sulayman (Solomon) b. Tsemah al-`Attar
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People covered:
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Abraham b. Mevasser (Abraham al-Parnas)
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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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279 mm
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Item width:
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185 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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Bibliographic Reference:
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Gil, M., A history of Palestine, 634-1099 (Cambridge, 1992), nos. 856-857.
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Gil, M. in Te`udah 7, 1991, pp. 300, 320-2 (partly transcribed and translated to Hebrew).
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Notes:
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34 lines. Text partially faded. Josiah ben Aaron was the grandson of Josiah ben Aaron ha-Ga'on. Gil identifies the mentioned Abraham ha-Parnas with Abraham b. Mevasser.
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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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L00075-1
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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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2008-05-21
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Date: added:
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2009-03
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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