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Reference number: 
Ar. 52 - 1
Obverse: 
Ar. 52 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0908921dc
Image Title: 
Arabic letter?
Subject: 
Letters
Description: 
The top-left quarter of a page, the top-right quarter of which is Ar. 69-1. A fragment, cut out of what was, it seems, a letter or a document, concerning al-mu'allim Nissim al-yahudi (the master Nissim, the Jew). The number 103 is mentioned in words - this is, perhaps, a sum of money discussed?
Time period covered: 
19th Century CE
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Arabic
Support material: 
Paper
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Interrelation fragments: 
Ar. 69-1, 69-2
Notes: 
7 lines (of ? lines). Cut and stained. If the number 43 mentioned there stands for the year, than it's probably 1243 (= 1827).
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: 
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number: 
PAR00052-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by JRUL Imaging Services
Date image captured: 
23/01/2009
Date: added: 
2009-11
Metadata language: 
eng-GB