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Reference number: 
A 75 - 1
Obverse: 
A 75 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL050119dc
Image Title: 
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject: 
Letters
Description: 
Letter discussing communal matters
Creation site: 
Egypt: Fustat?
People covered: 
Abraham
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
98 mm
Item width: 
178 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Oriental
Bibliographic Reference: 
Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean society, 6 vols. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1967-93), vol. 2, p. 543, nt. 3 (described).
Notes: 
11 lines. Abraham "the joy of the yeshivah" mentioned. Could this be Abraham b. David b. Sighmar mentioned with this title in ENA 2804, f. 11 (Goitein, Med.Soc.3:183)?
Transcription: 
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: 
A00075-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2008-05-14
Date: added: 
2009-02
Metadata language: 
eng-GB