COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 2490 - 1
Obverse:
B 2490 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0803769dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic document
Subject:
Legal documents
Description:
A legal testimony from the year 1225 (1536 in the Seleucid calendar) written under the auspices of Abraham Maimonides (1186-1237)
Creation site:
Egypt: Fustat
Date created:
1225
People covered:
Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon (1186-1237)
People covered:
Bint Abu 'l-Surur (12th-13th cent.?)
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
107 mm
Item width:
83 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Notes:
10 lines. Date expressed as Sunday ... Tammuz ... and 36 years according to the Seleucid era. "Negidenu Abraham" mentioned on line 5.
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:
B02490 - 1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2008-02-06
Date: added:
2008-08
Metadata language:
eng-GB
