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Detail View: Genizah Collection:

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: 
Creative Commons License
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