COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 2162 - 1
Obverse:
B 2162 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0802958dc
Image Title:
Hebrew document
Subject:
Records
Date created:
16th century
Place covered:
Egypt: Alexandria
People covered:
Abraham b. Hayim (d. ca. 1545)
People covered:
Abraham Abu 'l-Khair
People covered:
Joseph b. ...
Language:
Hebrew
Script:
Numerals: alphanumerical
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
156 mm
Item width:
217 mm
Folio:
1+2 / 4 leaves (2 x 2 conjoined), recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Sephardic
Interrelation fragments:
Join between the two B 2162 fragments
Bibliographic Reference:
David, A., 'On the history of the Sholal family in Egypt and Eretz Israel at the end of the Mameluke period and the beginning of the Ottoman period in the light of new documents from the Geniza', in: A. Mirsky, A. Grossman and Y. Kaplan (eds), Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (Jerusalem, 1988) (in Hebrew), pp. 374-414, esp. pp. 381-3, 389-90, 408-9. Cf.
Notes:
19 lines. Four different court records written in same hand regarding monetary disputes between claimant Abraham ben Hayyim and defendant Abraham Abu'l-Khair. Abraham ibn Hayyim, known from other Genizah fragments, who passed away at the end of 1545, was the father-in-law of the last nagid in Egypt, Isaac Sholal.
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:
B02162-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-12-12
Date: added:
2008-06
Metadata language:
eng-GB
