COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
A 1043 - 1
Obverse:
A 1043 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0705368dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject:
Letters
Description:
Letter addressed to a legal authority referred to as "our lord and gaon" discussing the marriage of Abu `Ala b. Abu 'l-Hassan the glassblower which took place in a gentile court
People covered:
Abu `Ala b. Abu 'l-Hassan al-Zujjaj
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
170 mm
Item width:
92 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Bibliographic Reference:
Ashtor (Strauss), Zion 7. Cf. p. 143.
Bibliographic Reference:
Freimann, A.H., Teshuvot rabenu Avraham ben ha-Rambam, 1937. Cf. no. 52.
Notes:
21 lines. Connected with this incident the letter writer also refers to the Karaites (?) and someone described as an apostate (possibly the glassblower is meant). The fact that the letter starts with the familiar panegyric salutations found in inquiries to Abraham Maimonides has led Ezra Chwat to surmise that this is a legal inquiry to him. The father Abu 'l-Hassan appears in a list of donors (see Ashtor, p. 143). See Freimann for a similar case in one of Abraham's responsa.
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:
A01043-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-03-27
Date: added:
2007-04
Metadata language:
eng-GB
