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Reference number: 
A 852 - 1
Obverse: 
A 852 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0705362dc
Image Title: 
Hebrew letter
Subject: 
Letters
Description: 
Letter about a dispute among Palestinian Jews involving Joseph Karo
Date created: 
15th-16th century
Place covered: 
Palestine: Nablus
Place covered: 
Syria: Damascus
People covered: 
Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim (1488-1575)
Language: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
165 mm
Item width: 
64 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Sephardic
Bibliographic Reference: 
David, A., `Aliyyah ve-hityashevut be-erets Yisra'el ba-me'ah ha-16, (Jerusalem), p. 216 (transcription).
Bibliographic Reference: 
David, A., To come to the land: immigration and settlement in sixteenth-century Eretz-Israel (Tuscaloosa and London, 1999) (= the English version of the book), p. 239, note 224 (mentioned, no transcription).
Notes: 
29 lines
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: 
Creative Commons License
Image sequence number: 
A00852-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-03-27
Date: added: 
2007-04
Metadata language: 
eng-GB