COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 5541 - 1
Obverse:
B 5541 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0707652dc
Image Title:
Bill of divorce
Subject:
Divorce records
Creation site:
Egypt: Fustat?
Date created:
1066-1108?
People covered:
Eli ha-Kohen bi-rabbi Yahya
People covered:
Hillel ha-Hazzan bi-rabbi Eli
Language:
Aramaic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
90 mm
Item width:
110 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Interrelation fragments:
Compare Budapest, DKG 278 for the same name including ha-Hazzan
Bibliographic Reference:
Entsiḳlopedyah Talmudit, vol. 5 (Jerusalem, 1953), opposite pp. 655-6.
Bibliographic Reference:
Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean society, 6 vols. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1967-93).
Notes:
10 lines. End of the document with the names of the two witnesses. Hillel ben Eli is known from a great number of documents issued by the Ben Din in Fustat (1066-1108) (see Goitein). For the same text and a similar Genizah fragment see the Entsiḳlopedyah Talmudit.
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:
B05541-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-05-18
Date: added:
2007-10
Metadata language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Genizah
