Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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B 4205 - 2
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Obverse:
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B 4205 - 1
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Image Number:
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JRL0704598dc
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Image Title:
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Judeo-Arabic letter
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Subject:
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Letters
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Description:
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Conclusion of the letter mentioning the murder of Fakhr al-Umara and also mentioning Amir al-Juyush, which was the title of Badr al-Jamali, the Armenian general and actual ruler of Egypt, 1074-1094, and a delegation from a Suleiman.
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Date created:
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11th century
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People covered:
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Suleiman
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People covered:
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Fakhr al-Umara
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Language:
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Arabic
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Script:
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Hebrew
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Support material:
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Paper
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Item height:
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71 mm
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Item width:
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121 mm
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Folio:
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1 / 1 leaf, verso
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Notes:
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8 lines. See M. Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, pp. 61-5 on the Amir al-Juyush. Page meant to be turned vertically.
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Transcription:
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Discovery site:
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Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
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Current repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Former repository:
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Moses Gaster
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Fragments
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Image rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Work rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access rights:
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 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester |
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Image sequence number:
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B04205-2
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Image technique:
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Digital capture by Gten
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Date image captured:
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2007-03-08
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Date: added:
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2007-07
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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