COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
A 284 - 1
Obverse:
A 284 - 2
Image Number:
JRL050135dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject:
Letters
Creator:
Abu Nasr b. Abraham (12th cent.)
Creator Role:
Author
Creator Role:
Scribe
Description:
Letter written on the sender's way to India
Creation site:
Eritrea: Semēnawī K’eyih Bahrī: Dahlak Archipelago
Date created:
12th century
Place covered:
Yemen: Aden
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Numerals: alphanumerical
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
72 mm
Item width:
75 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Interrelation fragments:
See New York, Jewish Theological Seminary, ENA NS 21, f. 14 for the same author/scribe
Bibliographic Reference:
Goitein, S.D., Letters of medieval Jewish traders, pp. 9, 259-63. Cf.
Bibliographic Reference:
Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean society, 6 vols. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1967-93). Cf.
Bibliographic Reference:
Shaked, S., A tentative bibliography of Geniza documents, p. 181.
Notes:
7 lines. Page meant to be turned vertically. Shaked refers to Goitein's unpublished 'India book' (94), but identifies the hand incorrectly as that of (Abu Sa`id) Halfon b. Nethanel (ha-Levi, 12th cent.).
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
Access rights:
Image sequence number:
A00284-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2008-05-14
Date: added:
2009-02
Metadata language:
eng-GB
