Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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Ar. 81 - 1
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Obverse:
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Ar. 81 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL0908979dc
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Image Title:
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Draft of Arabic letter
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Subject:
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Letters
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Description:
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2 drafts of a personal letter. The page was folded into two, one version was written on the left side horizontally; the other on the right side of the paper was written vertically to the first. The letter is written in a somewhat colloquial Arabic, with spelling mistakes and phonetic transcription. The writer describes a certain distress they're experiencing.
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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, recto
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Notes:
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12 horizontal lines and 7 vertical lines.
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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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JRUL
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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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PAR00081-1
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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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