COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 4434 - 1
Obverse:
B 4434 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0705160dc
Image Title:
Legal document
Subject:
Legal documents
Description:
Settlement involving a payment to the poor
Date created:
11th century?
People covered:
Efraim, R.
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
116 mm
Item width:
95 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Notes:
11 lines. Document also mentions a community leader with the honorific "Sar ha-S[arim]" ("Prince of Princes") and someone with the title "Behir ha-Yeshiva," possibly the merchant Abu Zikri Judah ben Moses ibn Sighmar (see M. Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, pp. 116-7).
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:
B04434-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-03-14
Date: added:
2007-07
Metadata language:
eng-GB
