COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
A 924 - 2
Obverse:
A 924 - 1
Image Number:
JRL0710764dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject:
Letters
Description:
Letter concerning a transaction in wheat (possibly one irdabb) and involving among others a haver ("member of the yeshiva")
Date created:
12th or 13th century?
People covered:
Yeshu`ah (ha-Melammed b. Abraham?)
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
69 mm
Item width:
81 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Technique used:
Handwriting
Notes:
7 lines. If al-shaykh Yeshu`a (lines 3-4) is the same person as al-Melammed ("the teacher", line 1), he may be identified as one of two persons attested in Genizah documents by the name Yeshu`a ha-Melammed b. Abraham, who lived in the middle of the 12th and the early 13th centuries respectively (see Goitein, Med.Soc., II: 544). Text on verso upside down with respect to recto. Text partially faded.
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:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number:
A00924-2
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-08-08
Date: added:
2007-11
Metadata language:
eng-GB
