COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 4525 - 1
Obverse:
B 4525 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0705356dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject:
Letters
Description:
Petition by Harun addressed to four brothers (?), the elders Abu 'l-Baka, Abu 'l-Baha, Abu 'l-Faraj and Abu 'l-Karam, requesting charity
Date created:
12th-13th century?
People covered:
Abu 'l-Faraj
People covered:
Abu 'l-Baka
People covered:
Abu 'l-Karam
People covered:
Harun
People covered:
Abu 'l-Baha
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
132 mm
Item width:
87 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Interrelation fragments:
B 4525 and B 5738 mention a Harun the copyist
Notes:
17 lines. The supplicant writes that he has not tasted bread in days and is emboldened to make his appeal because of the upcoming Jewish holiday. The cipher at the top, in small letters, probably is the abbreviation "b-m" for bism Allah al-rahman al-rahim, found in other Genizah documents.
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:
B04525-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-03-20
Date: added:
2007-07
Metadata language:
eng-GB
