Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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B 3001 - 1
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Obverse:
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B 3001 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL0701896dc
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Image Title:
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Betrothal document
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Subject:
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Marriage records
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Creator:
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Halfon ben Manasse (fl. 1100-1138)
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Creator Role:
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Scribe
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Description:
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Betrothal agreement between Bayan and Sitt al-Nasab
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Creation site:
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Egypt: Fustat
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Date created:
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1100-1138
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Place covered:
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Egypt: Fustat
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People covered:
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Sitt al-Nasab
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People covered:
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Bayan
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Language:
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Arabic
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Language:
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Hebrew
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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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88 mm
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Item width:
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90 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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Style Period:
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Oriental
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Interrelation fragments:
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Recognised as Halfon's hand: A 220, A 316, A 337, A 355, A 816, A 1104, A 1143, B 2377, B 2382, B 2681, B 2827, B 2842 (?), B 2846, B 2864, B 2970, B 3001, B 3083, B 3784, B 4782, B 5478, B 5611
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Weiss, G., Legal documents written by the court clerk Halfon ben Manasse, dated 1100-1138 (PhD thesis 1970). Cf.
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Notes:
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10 lines. Among the provisions included is the groom's assurance that he will not prevent the bride from travelling from Fustat nor will he force her to travel against her will. (A similar set of arrangements, also pertaining to a woman named Sitt al-Nasab, is reflected in Cambridge, University Library, T-S 16.35. See Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 3:173-74.)
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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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B03001-1
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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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2007-01-10
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Date: added:
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2007-03
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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