Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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B 4525 - 1
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Obverse:
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B 4525 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL0705356dc
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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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Petition by Harun addressed to four brothers (?), the elders Abu 'l-Baka, Abu 'l-Baha, Abu 'l-Faraj and Abu 'l-Karam, requesting charity
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Date created:
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12th-13th century?
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People covered:
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Abu 'l-Faraj
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People covered:
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Abu 'l-Baka
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People covered:
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Abu 'l-Karam
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People covered:
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Harun
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People covered:
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Abu 'l-Baha
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Language:
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Arabic
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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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132 mm
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Item width:
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87 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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Style Period:
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Oriental
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Interrelation fragments:
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B 4525 and B 5738 mention a Harun the copyist
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Notes:
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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.
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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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B04525-1
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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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2007-03-20
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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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