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Detail View: Genizah Collection:

Reference number: 
B 3787 - 1
Obverse: 
B 3787 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0703629dc
Image Title: 
Judeo-Arabic document
Subject: 
Records
Description: 
Document regarding the appointment of an administrator
Creation site: 
Egypt
Date created: 
11th-12th century?
Place covered: 
Egypt: Al Maḩallah al Kubrá
People covered: 
Joshua b. Elazar
People covered: 
Aliyah bat Joseph
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
87 mm
Item width: 
97 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Oriental
Interrelation fragments: 
B 3787 and B 3788 from same document; see Mosserri VII.26 (formerly A 26)
Notes: 
10 lines. Joshua b. Elazar is appointed the administrator. Reference is made to four cubits of land in the land of Israel. Line 5 of the Mosseri fragment from the end of the eleventh century also mentions Aliyah, the daughter of Joseph, inspector of the merchants of al-Mahalla.
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: 
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number: 
B03787-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-02-21
Date: added: 
2007-06
Metadata language: 
eng-GB