Detail View: Genizah Collection:

Reference number: 
A 859 - 1
Obverse: 
A 859 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0705364dc
Image Title: 
Financial record
Subject: 
Accounting
Creator: 
Hiyya ben Isaac (12th cent.)
Creator Role: 
Scribe
Description: 
Details of rent collection written in the hand of the judge Hiyya b. Isaac, including a reference to payment date Tishri 1464 Seleucid (= September 1152)
Date created: 
c. 1152
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Numerals: Coptic
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
101 mm
Item width: 
82 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Bibliographic Reference: 
Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean society, 6 vols. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1967-93), vol. 2, p. 427, nr. 131b (mentioned).
Bibliographic Reference: 
Gil, M., Documents of the Jewish pious foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden, 1976), pp. 52, 269-70 (transcription, translation, commentary).
Notes: 
14 lines. Hiyya ben Isaac was a judge.
Transcription: 
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: 
A00859-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-03-27
Date: added: 
2007-04
Metadata language: 
eng-GB