COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 2539 - 1
Obverse:
B 2539 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0803867dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject:
Letters
Place covered:
Egypt: al-Mahalla
People covered:
Joseph ben Bishr (10th-11th cent.?)
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
57 mm
Item width:
202 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Bibliographic Reference:
Gil, M., In the kingdom of Ishmael, 4 vols (Tel Aviv and Jerusalem 1997) (in Hebrew), vol. 2, pp. 119-21, no. 39 (for Joseph ben Bishr).
Bibliographic Reference:
Mann, J., Texts and studies in Jewish history and literature, 2 vols (Cincinnati, Ohio 1931-1935), vol. 1, pp. 117-8 and 135-6 (for Joseph ben Bishr).
Notes:
6 lines. Perhaps the same Joseph ben Bishr as the one mentioned in a letter of Hai Gaon (dated 1018), in which Joseph is described as a resident of Fustat. Text partially faded. Letter in a different hand on verso.
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:
B02539-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2008-02-06
Date: added:
2008-08
Metadata language:
eng-GB
