Detail View: Genizah Collection:

Reference number: 
L 192 - 1
Obverse: 
L 192 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0902196dc
Image Title: 
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject: 
Commercial documents
Subject: 
Records
Subject: 
Letters
Creator: 
Abraham ha-Levi (18-19th cent.)
Creator Role: 
Author
Date created: 
1808-11-15
Place covered: 
Egypt: Alexandria
People covered: 
Saʽūr ha-Levi (18th-19th cent.)
People covered: 
Francis Karo (18th-19th cent.)
People covered: 
Ahmad Shaltūt (18th-19th cent.)
People covered: 
Hasan Abu'l-Fadl (18th-19th cent.)
People covered: 
Abraham ha-Levi Skandari (18th-19th cent.)
People covered: 
Abraham Maimon (18th-19th cent.)
People covered: 
Umar Serāda (18th-19th cent.)
People covered: 
Saʽd Pinto (18th-19th cent.)
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Numerals: Hindu-Arabic, eastern
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
255 mm
Item width: 
320 mm
Folio: 
1+2 / 2 leaves conjoined, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Bibliographic Reference: 
Khan, G., 'A Judaeo-Arabic Document from Ottoman Egypt in the Rylands Genizah Collection', in R. Smithuis and P.S. Alexander (eds), From Cairo to Manchester: Studies in the Rylands Genizah Fragments (Oxford, 2013), pp. 233-47, esp. 238-47 (plates, edition, translation, commentary).
Notes: 
36 lines. Commercial letter from Ottoman Egypt. Date expressed as Tuesday 25 Hešwan 569.
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: 
JRUL
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: 
L00192-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by JRUL Imaging Services
Date image captured: 
2008-11-11
Date: added: 
2009-10
Metadata language: 
eng-GB