Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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Ar. 52 - 2
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Obverse:
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Ar. 52 - 1
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Image Number:
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JRL0908922dc
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Image Title:
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Arabic document
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Subject:
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Accounting
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Description:
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A different hand to the one on the recto. If the number 50 there stands for the year, than it's probably 1250 (= 1834), 7 years after the recto was written. At first it seems as if this small piece of paper was cut off of a larger sheet (which contained the text of the recto), to be used for this small documentary note regarding a certain sum of money - 261 and 54 (to be paid to Nissim the Jew who is mentioned in the recto?); however, it seems that the left margins of this document are also cut, which is further reinforced by Ar. 69-1, 69-2 as the complementing part of this fragment. Muhammad Abu Aliya (?) al-wakil (? = legal representative) is mentioned. The last line states that the written amount is paid and
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Time period covered:
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19th Century CE
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Language:
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Arabic
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Script:
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Arabic
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Support material:
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Paper
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Folio:
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1 / 1 leaf, verso
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Interrelation fragments:
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Ar. 69-1, 69-2
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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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PAR00052-2
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Image technique:
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Digital capture by JRUL Imaging Services
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Date image captured:
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23/01/2009
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Date: added:
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2009-11
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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