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Reference number: 
B 3476 - 1
Obverse: 
B 3476 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0702987dc
Image Title: 
Judeo-Arabic document
Subject: 
Records
Subject: 
Marriage records
Description: 
Court testimony (a power of attorney) delivered in 1095/6
Date created: 
1095-1096
Language: 
Aramaic
Language: 
Hebrew
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
32 mm
Item width: 
87 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Oriental
Interrelation fragments: 
Probably join between B 3475 and B 3476
Notes: 
3 lines. The writer of this document appoints the bearer of the document as an agent to marry a woman on his behalf. Lines 1-2 correspond to the words in Rav Hai's exemplar, which are printed in Haggai's Hebrew translation of R. Solomon ben Nathan's of Sijillmassa's siddur (1995), p. 188.25-6.
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: 
B03476-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-02-07
Date: added: 
2007-05
Metadata language: 
eng-GB