Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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B 4037 - 1
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Obverse:
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B 4037 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL0704251dc
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Image Title:
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Judeo-Arabic letter
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Subject:
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Letters
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Description:
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Business letter from Allush ("Lamb") ben Makhluf al-Nafusi to M[ahr]uz ben Jacob concerning payments involving and owed to various merchants
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Date created:
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12th century
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Place covered:
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Yemen: Aden
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Place covered:
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Egypt: Fustat
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People covered:
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Abu Sa`id ibn al-Damiyati (12th cent.)
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People covered:
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Abu Zikri (12th cent.)
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People covered:
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Isaac (ben Makhluf (12th cent.))
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People covered:
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Madmun (ibn Hasan (d. 1151)?)
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People covered:
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Abu Sa`id (12th cent.)
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Language:
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Arabic
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Script:
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Numerals: alphanumerical
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Script:
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Hebrew
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Support material:
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Paper
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Item height:
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149 mm
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Item width:
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84 mm
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Folio:
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1 / 1 leaf, recto
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Notes:
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23 lines. Among the merchants mentioned are someone named Madmun, perhaps to be identified with the representative of merchants and Nagid of Yemen, Madmun ibn Hasan (d. 1151); Abu Said ibn al-Damiyati; Abu Zikri, perhaps the representative of the merchants in Fustat during the first half of the twelfth century with the same name; and the writer's brother, Isaac (= the well-attested India trader Isaac ben Makhluf). Allush appears again in a court record dated 1132 as having bought a house in his brother\'s name [Bodl. MS Heb b.11 (Cat 2874, no. 20) fol. 21)]. The letter also mentions travel to the Maghrib and Aden, and shipments of pepper. Page meant to be turned vertically.
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Transcription:
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Discovery site:
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Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
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Current repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Former repository:
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Moses Gaster
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Fragments
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Image rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Work rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access rights:
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 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester |
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Image sequence number:
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B04037-1
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Image technique:
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Digital capture by Gten
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Date image captured:
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2007-03-06
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Date: added:
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2007-07
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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