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Reference number: 
B 3762 - 1
Obverse: 
B 3762 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0703573dc
Image Title: 
Judeo-Arabic document
Subject: 
Records
Subject: 
Accounting
Description: 
Document listing in detail payments to individuals, some for commodities (including bread, flour and meat), as well as amounts owed (possibly for rent) connected to a qodesh ("holy trust" or pious foundation)
People covered: 
Joseph
People covered: 
Faraj
People covered: 
Ziyat
People covered: 
Wahish
People covered: 
Moses
People covered: 
`Ammar
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Numerals: alphanumerical
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
134 mm
Item width: 
78 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Notes: 
15 lines. On the qodesh see Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations, pp. 3-4 et passim. The payments are made on behalf of a haver ("member (of the yeshiva)", apparently associated with the administration of the qodesh). All quantities are in dirhams.
Transcription: 
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: 
B03762-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-02-21
Date: added: 
2007-06
Metadata language: 
eng-GB