COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 4265 - 1
Obverse:
B 4265 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0704731dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject:
Letters
Description:
Letter addressed to "our master and lord Hananel (...) the great pietist, the outstanding sage, son of our master and lord Samuel"
Date created:
13th century
People covered:
Hananel ben Samuel (13th cent.)
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
133 mm
Item width:
73 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Bibliographic Reference:
Goitein, S.D. and M.A. Friedman, India traders of the Middle Ages: documents from the Cairo Geniza ('India Book') (Leiden/Boston: 2008), p. 109, nt. 95 (mentioned).
Bibliographic Reference:
Goitein, S.D. and M.A. Friedman, Sefer Hodu III: Te'udot mi-Genizat Kahir (Abraham ben Yiju soher ve-yatsran be-Hodul) (Jerusalem: 2010), p. 52 (mentioned).
Notes:
11 lines. Hananel ben Samuel was a rabbinic judge and related by marriage to Maimonides.
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:
B04265-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-03-08
Date: added:
2007-07
Metadata language:
eng-GB
