COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 3787 - 1
Obverse:
B 3787 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0703629dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic document
Subject:
Records
Description:
Document regarding the appointment of an administrator
Creation site:
Egypt
Date created:
11th-12th century?
Place covered:
Egypt: Al Maḩallah al Kubrá
People covered:
Joshua b. Elazar
People covered:
Aliyah bat Joseph
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
87 mm
Item width:
97 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Interrelation fragments:
B 3787 and B 3788 from same document; see Mosserri VII.26 (formerly A 26)
Notes:
10 lines. Joshua b. Elazar is appointed the administrator. Reference is made to four cubits of land in the land of Israel. Line 5 of the Mosseri fragment from the end of the eleventh century also mentions Aliyah, the daughter of Joseph, inspector of the merchants of al-Mahalla.
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:
B03787-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-02-21
Date: added:
2007-06
Metadata language:
eng-GB
