Detail View: Genizah Collection:

Reference number: 
A 923 - 1
Obverse: 
A 923 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL050174dc
Image Title: 
List of beneficiaries
Subject: 
Lists
Description: 
List with the names of poor and sick people eligible for help from the community
Creation site: 
Egypt
Date created: 
11th century [late]- 12th century [early]
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
82 mm
Item width: 
91 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Interrelation fragments: 
Compare Cambridge, University Library, T-S K 15.97
Bibliographic Reference: 
Golb, N., 'The topography of the Jews in medieval Egypt', JNES 33, 1974, p. 140 (mentioned).
Bibliographic Reference: 
Goitein, S.D., 'The medical profession in the light of the Cairo Geniza documents', HUCA 34, 1963, p. 188, nt. 45 (mentioned).
Bibliographic Reference: 
Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean society, 6 vols. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1967-93), vol. 2, p. 446, nr. 30; p. 541, nt. 101; vol. 3, pp. 303 and 494, nt. 125 (described).
Notes: 
7 lines. Hypothetical dating based on the fact that some of the names are identical with those in above, roughly dated Cambridge fragment.
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: 
A00923-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2008-05-14
Date: added: 
2009-02
Metadata language: 
eng-GB