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Reference number: 
B 6028 - 1
Obverse: 
B 6028 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0804947dc
Image Title: 
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject: 
Letters
Creator: 
Hillel b. Eli (11th-12th cent.)
Creator Role: 
Scribe
Creator: 
Joseph Lebdi (11th-12th cent.)
Creator Role: 
Author
Description: 
Letter from Joseph Lebdi to Hasan b. Bundar
Date created: 
11th-12th century
People covered: 
Ab(u Ya`qub b.) al-Hakim (Jekuthiel) b. Moses ha-Rofe (11th-12th cent.)
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
93 mm
Item width: 
133 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Bibliographic Reference: 
Goitein, S.D. and M.A. Friedman, Sefer Hodu I: Te'udot mi-Genizat Kahir (Yosef al-Lebdi soher Hodu ha-gadol) (Jerusalem: 2009), pp. 102-4 (transcribed, translated to Hebrew, described).
Bibliographic Reference: 
Goitein, S.D. and M.A. Friedman, India traders of the Middle Ages: documents from the Cairo Geniza ('India Book') (Leiden/Boston: 2008), p. 203 (described).
Notes: 
8 lines. On the court case between Lebdi and Jekuthiel. See also Goitein's Mediterranean Society and above books for information on the different people concerned. Jekuthiel not mentioned on the fragment, but this is his full name according to these sources.
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: 
B06028-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by JRUL Imaging Services
Date image captured: 
2009-07-31
Date: added: 
2009-09
Metadata language: 
eng-GB