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Reference number: 
Ar. 9 - 1
Obverse: 
Ar. 9 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0908835dc
Image Title: 
Arabic document
Subject: 
Legal documents
Description: 
A legal document, mention of a shop in the Jew's quarter; and the date (end of) Shawwal 1246 = (Mid) April 1831.
Time period covered: 
19th Century CE
People covered: 
al-Haj Ahmad Abu ?
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Arabic
Support material: 
Paper
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Notes: 
About 8 lines. The stamp on the right looks very much like the one on Ar. 1-1. (Not the same handwriting, though). The date (end of) Shawwal 1246 is mentioned = (Mid) April 1831
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: 
PAR00009-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by JRUL Imaging Services
Date image captured: 
2009-01-22
Date: added: 
2009-10
Metadata language: 
eng-GB