Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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B 2541 - 1
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Obverse:
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B 2541 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL0803871dc
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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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Description:
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Letter to Jacob ibn Habib
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People covered:
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Jacob ibn Habib
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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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110 mm
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Item width:
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167 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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Sephardic
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Interrelation fragments:
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B 2541, B 2542 and B 2543 possibly related
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Notes:
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14 lines. Letter possibly written by Jacob ibn Habib's brother due to the opening sentence with allusion to Genesis 46.21. Probably not the same person as Jacob ben Solomon ibn Habib (ca. 1445-1515 or 16).
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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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B02541-1
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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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2008-02-07
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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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