COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 4182 - 1
Obverse:
B 4182 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0704551dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject:
Letters
Description:
The beginning of a letter from Moses b. Judah, the cantor, to the Nagid, Samuel b. Hananya (1141- 1159)
Creation site:
Egypt: Fustat?
Date created:
1141-1159
People covered:
Samuel ben Hananiah (fl. 1141-1159)
People covered:
Moses b. Judah (12th cent.)
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
80 mm
Item width:
160 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Interrelation fragments:
Compare Cambridge, University Library, T-S 16.151 and T-S 13J3.4; New York, Jewish Theological Seminary, ENA 2558.3 and Oxford, Bodl. MS Heb. A 3 5
Notes:
6 lines. Moses b. Judah is probably Moses b. Judah who signed TS 16.151 in 1130 as a teacher ("ha-Melammed") and in 1141 signed ENA 2558.3 as cantor. The same attributes for Samuel b. Hananya are found in TS 13J3.4 and Bodl. MS Heb. A 3 5.
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:
B04182-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-03-08
Date: added:
2007-07
Metadata language:
eng-GB
