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Reference number: 
Ar. 78 - 1
Obverse: 
Ar. 78 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0908973dc
Image Title: 
Arabic document
Subject: 
Records
Description: 
Legal document, presumably letter that was written by the prosecuting side and deals with a family matter that is to be submitted to the decision of the consul in the diwan: it concerns one Jew (wahid yahudi) whose deceased cousin, who was very poor (faqir al-Hal) married the mother of the writer (?). Because of the repeated reference to the man's poor means, it seems the basis for this letter is the inheritance of money or property. The text is torn in the middle, so perhaps some of the important details are found there (the names concerned etc.).
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Arabic
Support material: 
Paper
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Notes: 
Left side and margin torn.
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: 
JRUL
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: 
PAR00078-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by JRUL Imaging Services
Date image captured: 
23/01/2009
Date: added: 
2009-11
Metadata language: 
eng-GB