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Reference number: 
B 6104 - 1
Obverse: 
B 6104 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0805109dc
Image Title: 
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject: 
Letters
People covered: 
Abu Mansur
People covered: 
Abu 'l-Faraj
People covered: 
Isaac Nafusi
People covered: 
Abu 'l-Najm
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
135 mm
Item width: 
132 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Interrelation fragments: 
Probably join between B 6104 and B 6105
Bibliographic Reference: 
Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean society, 6 vols. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1967-93), vol. 1, p. 204. Cf.
Notes: 
16 lines. A certain Isaac Nafusi described by Goitein as a 'prominent India merchant' (see Oxford, Bodleian Library, Heb. c 28, f. 50). Misr probably mentioned on line 7.
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: 
B06104-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2008-03-18
Date: added: 
2008-11
Metadata language: 
eng-GB