COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 5738 - 1
Obverse:
B 5738 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0709981dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject:
Records
Subject:
Letters
Description:
An unnamed elder directs the beadle Abu 'l-Tahir to furnish Harun the copyist with a good copy of a Torah scroll so that the latter can copy from it
Date created:
12th-13th century?
People covered:
Harun
People covered:
Abu 'l-Tahir
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
63 mm
Item width:
96 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Interrelation fragments:
B 4525 and B 5738 both mention a Harun the copyist
Notes:
5 lines. Harun is to bring the book to the beadle each Friday, to be read on Shabbat. A beadle named Abu al-Tahir b. Mahfuz was active between 1183 and 1223 (Med. Soc. II 421, 431, 546; IV 436; V 547).
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:
B05738-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-07-24
Date: added:
2007-10
Metadata language:
eng-GB
