COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 3819 - 2
Obverse:
B 3819 - 1
Image Number:
JRL0703694dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject:
Letters
Subject:
Records
Description:
Query addressed to an unidentified legal authority concerning a husband's financial obligations towards his wife
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Script:
Numerals: alphanumerical
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
119 mm
Item width:
110 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Technique used:
Handwriting
Notes:
10 lines. The text mentions several objects including the wife's household effects and gold and silver jewelry, and the existence of three children. Recto and verso apparently unrelated. Text on verso upside down with respect to recto.
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:
B03819-2
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-02-22
Date: added:
2007-06
Metadata language:
eng-GB
