COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
L 213 - 2
Obverse:
L 213 - 1
Image Number:
JRL022691dc
Image Title:
Letter from Tyre
Subject:
Letters
Creator:
Tsedakah ha-Levi ben Solomon (11-12th cent.)
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Tsedakah ibn Nufay` (11-12th cent.)
Description:
Verso of a letter from Tyre by a young cantor to his father in Fustat; contains the address of the father
Creation site:
Lebanon: Tyre
Date created:
1090-10-28
People covered:
Abu (?Nas)r Salama ibn Sa`id ibn Nufay` (11th cent.)
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
202 mm
Item width:
113 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Technique used:
Handwriting
Interrelation fragments:
Apparently, persons involved also known from: -British Library, Or. ms. 5544, f. 3; Cambridge, University Library, T-S 16.186; T-S 16.188; T-S 16.253v; T-S 8 J 5, f. 2a-c, line 2; British Library, Heb. d 61 (son) -Cambridge, University Library, T-S 16.378 (father)
Bibliographic Reference:
Goitein, S.D., 'An eleventh-century letter from Tyre in the John Rylands Library', Bulletin of the JRULM 54/1, 1971, pp. 94-102 (facs. edition, transcription, translation).
Bibliographic Reference:
Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean society, 6 vols. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1967-93), vol. 1, pp. 54 and 404; vol. 3, pp. 240-1 and 478; vol. 5, pp. 124-6 and 540 (translation).
Bibliographic Reference:
Gil, M., Erets-Yisrael ba-tequfah ha-muslamit ha-rishonah (634-1099) (Tel Aviv 1983), vol. 1, pp. 155, 609, 618-20; vol. 3, pp. 518-20 (edition, Hebrew translation).
Notes:
4 lines. Name author deduced from other sources. Alternative name author: Tsedakah ibn Nufay`. Alternative name father: Solomon ben Sa`adia. Date (found on recto of this fragment) expressed as 1 Ramadan 483. Liz Cashdan has written a few poems based on this fragment, which were published in the winter issue of the Jewish Quarterly 1991/2.
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:
Image sequence number:
L00213 - 2
Image technique:
Scanned from colour transparency by Gten
Date image captured:
2004-07
Metadata language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Genizah
