COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 2541 - 1
Obverse:
B 2541 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0803871dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject:
Letters
Description:
Letter to Jacob ibn Habib
People covered:
Jacob ibn Habib
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
110 mm
Item width:
167 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Sephardic
Interrelation fragments:
B 2541, B 2542 and B 2543 possibly related
Notes:
14 lines. Letter possibly written by Jacob ibn Habib's brother due to the opening sentence with allusion to Genesis 46.21. Probably not the same person as Jacob ben Solomon ibn Habib (ca. 1445-1515 or 16).
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:
B02541-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2008-02-07
Date: added:
2008-08
Metadata language:
eng-GB
