Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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B 4089 - 1
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Obverse:
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B 4089 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL0704357dc
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Image Title:
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Judeo-Arabic letter
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Subject:
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Letters
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Description:
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Business letter describing commercial transactions and what the author describes as favors or "gifts" to a fellow trader
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Creation site:
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Yemen: Aden?
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Date created:
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12th century?
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People covered:
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`Ali al-Nili (12th cent.?)
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People covered:
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Abu Ghalib al-Rubban (12th cent.?)
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Language:
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Arabic
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Script:
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Hebrew
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Support material:
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Paper
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Item height:
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116 mm
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Item width:
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114 mm
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Folio:
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1 / 1 leaf, recto
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Notes:
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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.
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Transcription:
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Discovery site:
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Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
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Current repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Former repository:
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Moses Gaster
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Fragments
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Image rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Work rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access rights:
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 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester |
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Image sequence number:
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B04089-1
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Image technique:
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Digital capture by Gten
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Date image captured:
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2007-03-06
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Date: added:
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2007-07
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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