Detail View: Genizah Collection:

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: 
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: 
A00015-2
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-05-31
Date: added: 
2007-09
Metadata language: 
eng-GB