COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 4089 - 1
Obverse:
B 4089 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0704357dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject:
Letters
Description:
Business letter describing commercial transactions and what the author describes as favors or "gifts" to a fellow trader
Creation site:
Yemen: Aden?
Date created:
12th century?
People covered:
`Ali al-Nili (12th cent.?)
People covered:
Abu Ghalib al-Rubban (12th cent.?)
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
116 mm
Item width:
114 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Notes:
11 lines. The main commodities mentioned are copper and pepper. Customs dues, freight charges, porters' fees, and safekeeping are also reported (recto and verso). The mention of a tax paid at al-Furda (the customshouse at the port city of Aden) and the names of Ali al-Nili ("the indigo trader") and Abu Ghalib al-Rubban ("the captain") suggest that the author reports from the port city of Aden in Yemen sometime in the twelfth century. Page meant to be turned vertically.
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:
B04089-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-03-06
Date: added:
2007-07
Metadata language:
eng-GB
