Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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B 4265 - 1
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Obverse:
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B 4265 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL0704731dc
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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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Letter addressed to "our master and lord Hananel (...) the great pietist, the outstanding sage, son of our master and lord Samuel"
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Date created:
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13th century
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People covered:
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Hananel ben Samuel (13th cent.)
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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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133 mm
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Item width:
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73 mm
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Folio:
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1 / 1 leaf, recto
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Bibliographic Reference:
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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).
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Bibliographic Reference:
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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).
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Notes:
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11 lines. Hananel ben Samuel was a rabbinic judge and related by marriage to Maimonides.
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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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B04265-1
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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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