COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 3005 - 1
Obverse:
B 3005 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0701902dc
Image Title:
Business letter
Subject:
Letters
Creator:
Obadiah
Creator Role:
Scribe
Creator Role:
Author
Description:
Obadiah from Hamadan writes a business letter
Place covered:
Iran: Shīrāz
Place covered:
Iraq: Basra
People covered:
Simeon bar Yohai (2nd cent.)?
People covered:
Manasse b. (A.?) Jacob, M.
Language:
Hebrew
Script:
Numerals: alphanumerical
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
88 mm
Item width:
181 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Notes:
18 lines. Two more towns mentioned on line 10. Abbreviation of Erets Yisrael mentioned on line 9.
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:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number:
B03005-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-01-10
Date: added:
2007-03
Metadata language:
eng-GB
