Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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L 213 - 1
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Obverse:
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L 213 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL022659dc
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Image Title:
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Letter from Tyre
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Subject:
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Letters
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Creator:
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Tsedakah ha-Levi ben Solomon (11-12th cent.)
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Tsedakah ibn Nufay` (11-12th cent.)
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Description:
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Letter from Tyre by a young cantor to his father in Fustat
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Creation site:
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Lebanon: Tyre
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Date created:
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1090-10-28
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Place covered:
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Egypt: Fustat
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Place covered:
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Lebanon: Jubayl
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Place covered:
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Palestine: Akko
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Place covered:
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Lebanon: Tyre
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People covered:
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Ibn Shekanya (11th cent.)
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People covered:
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Abu Nasr Ju(dah) of Damascus (11th cent.)
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People covered:
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Abu `Ali (Japhet b. Abraham b. Azhar) (11th cent.)
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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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202 mm
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Item width:
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113 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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Interrelation fragments:
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Apparently, persons involved also known from: -British Library, Or. ms. 5544, f. 3; Cambridge, University Library, T-S 16.186; T-S 16.188; T-S 16.253v; T-S 8 J 5, f. 2a-c, line 2; British Library, Heb. d 61 (son) -Cambridge, University Library, T-S 16.378 (father)
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Gil, M., A history of Palestine, 634-1099 (Cambridge), 1992, nos. .
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Goitein, S.D., 'An eleventh-century letter from Tyre in the John Rylands Library', Bulletin of the JRULM 54/1, 1971, pp. 94-102 (facs. edition, transcription, translation).
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Gil, M., Erets-Yisrael ba-tequfah ha-muslamit ha-rishonah (634-1099) (Tel Aviv 1983), vol. 1, pp. 155, 609, 618-20; vol. 3, pp. 518-20 (edition, Hebrew translation).
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean society, 6 vols. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1967-93), vol. 1, pp. 54 and 404; vol. 3, pp. 240-1 and 478; vol. 5, pp. 124-6 and 540 (translation).
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Notes:
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26 lines. Name author deduced from other sources. Alternative name author: Tsedakah ibn Nufay`. Date expressed as 1 Ramadan 483. Liz Cashdan has written a few poems based on this fragment, which were published in the winter issue of the Jewish Quarterly 1991/2.
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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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L00213 - 1
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Image technique:
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Scanned from colour transparency by Gten
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Date image captured:
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2004-07
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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