COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
A 859 - 1
Obverse:
A 859 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0705364dc
Image Title:
Financial record
Subject:
Accounting
Creator:
Hiyya ben Isaac (12th cent.)
Creator Role:
Scribe
Description:
Details of rent collection written in the hand of the judge Hiyya b. Isaac, including a reference to payment date Tishri 1464 Seleucid (= September 1152)
Date created:
c. 1152
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Numerals: Coptic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
101 mm
Item width:
82 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Bibliographic Reference:
Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean society, 6 vols. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1967-93), vol. 2, p. 427, nr. 131b (mentioned).
Bibliographic Reference:
Gil, M., Documents of the Jewish pious foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden, 1976), pp. 52, 269-70 (transcription, translation, commentary).
Notes:
14 lines. Hiyya ben Isaac was a judge.
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:
A00859-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-03-27
Date: added:
2007-04
Metadata language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Genizah
