COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 3762 - 1
Obverse:
B 3762 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0703573dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic document
Subject:
Records
Subject:
Accounting
Description:
Document listing in detail payments to individuals, some for commodities (including bread, flour and meat), as well as amounts owed (possibly for rent) connected to a qodesh ("holy trust" or pious foundation)
People covered:
Joseph
People covered:
Faraj
People covered:
Ziyat
People covered:
Wahish
People covered:
Moses
People covered:
`Ammar
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Numerals: alphanumerical
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
134 mm
Item width:
78 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Notes:
15 lines. On the qodesh see Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations, pp. 3-4 et passim. The payments are made on behalf of a haver ("member (of the yeshiva)", apparently associated with the administration of the qodesh). All quantities are in dirhams.
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:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number:
B03762-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-02-21
Date: added:
2007-06
Metadata language:
eng-GB
