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Reference number: 
B 4434 - 1
Obverse: 
B 4434 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0705160dc
Image Title: 
Legal document
Subject: 
Legal documents
Description: 
Settlement involving a payment to the poor
Date created: 
11th century?
People covered: 
Efraim, R.
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
116 mm
Item width: 
95 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Notes: 
11 lines. Document also mentions a community leader with the honorific "Sar ha-S[arim]" ("Prince of Princes") and someone with the title "Behir ha-Yeshiva," possibly the merchant Abu Zikri Judah ben Moses ibn Sighmar (see M. Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, pp. 116-7).
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: 
B04434-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-03-14
Date: added: 
2007-07
Metadata language: 
eng-GB