Detail View: Genizah Collection:

Reference number: 
B 4269 - 2
Obverse: 
B 4269 - 1
Image Number: 
JRL0704740dc
Image Title: 
Bill of divorce
Subject: 
Divorce records
Description: 
Possibly from Summer of 1143
Creation site: 
Egypt: Minyat Zifta near Fustat
Date created: 
1143
People covered: 
Sa`adia ben Nathan (12th cent.?)
People covered: 
Joseph ben Shemarya (12th cent.?)
Language: 
Aramaic
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Parchment
Item height: 
147 mm
Item width: 
111 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Notes: 
5 lines. On recto, date expressed as 24 Tammuz 1454 "le-minyana de-regilna beh" (= probably the Seleucid era). Aramaicized names (bar instead of ben).
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: 
B04269-2
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-03-08
Date: added: 
2007-07
Metadata language: 
eng-GB