Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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B 2539 - 1
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Obverse:
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B 2539 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL0803867dc
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Image Title:
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Judeo-Arabic letter
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Subject:
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Letters
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Place covered:
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Egypt: al-Mahalla
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People covered:
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Joseph ben Bishr (10th-11th cent.?)
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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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57 mm
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Item width:
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202 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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Style Period:
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Oriental
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Gil, M., In the kingdom of Ishmael, 4 vols (Tel Aviv and Jerusalem 1997) (in Hebrew), vol. 2, pp. 119-21, no. 39 (for Joseph ben Bishr).
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Mann, J., Texts and studies in Jewish history and literature, 2 vols (Cincinnati, Ohio 1931-1935), vol. 1, pp. 117-8 and 135-6 (for Joseph ben Bishr).
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Notes:
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6 lines. Perhaps the same Joseph ben Bishr as the one mentioned in a letter of Hai Gaon (dated 1018), in which Joseph is described as a resident of Fustat. Text partially faded. Letter in a different hand on verso.
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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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B02539-1
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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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2008-02-06
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Date: added:
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2008-08
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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