Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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B 5738 - 1
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Obverse:
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B 5738 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL0709981dc
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Image Title:
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Judeo-Arabic letter
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Subject:
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Records
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Subject:
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Letters
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Description:
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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
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Date created:
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12th-13th century?
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People covered:
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Harun
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People covered:
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Abu 'l-Tahir
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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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63 mm
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Item width:
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96 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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Interrelation fragments:
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B 4525 and B 5738 both mention a Harun the copyist
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Notes:
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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).
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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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B05738-1
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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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2007-07-24
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Date: added:
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2007-10
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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