COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
A 15 - 2
Obverse:
A 15 - 1
Image Number:
JRL0708099dc
Image Title:
Hebrew note
People covered:
Perahya ha-Kohen b. Tar(fon) (11th-12th cent.?)
People covered:
Bar Joseph ha-Kohen
Language:
Hebrew
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
137 mm
Item width:
112 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Technique used:
Handwriting
Bibliographic Reference:
Goitein, S.D. and M.A. Friedman, India traders of the Middle Ages: documents from the Cairo Geniza ('India Book') (Leiden/Boston: 2008), pp. 300-1.
Notes:
6 lines. This Perahya might be the same person as described in the 'India book', according to which a Perahya I b. Tarfon lived in the Egyptian town Malij, where he was the head of the Jewish congregation in 1104.
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:
A00015-2
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-05-31
Date: added:
2007-09
Metadata language:
eng-GB
