Author
CUL
Subject
Cairo Genizah
Type
Document
Language
heb,jrb
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
2
Physical Dimensions
1 leaf. Leaf height: 46.8 cm, width: 18.8 cm.
Library
Cambridge Digital Library
Record ID
MS-TS-00020-00037
Library Location
Cambridge University Library — T-S 20.37
Notes
Testimony from a group of India traders reporting that they had arrived in Aden to find a Persian man claiming to be of the house of David (a Nasi) with the right to assume authority, and that the local people had conceded jurisdiction to him over all the synagogues in the country. It also reports that previously public prayers had been said for the Exilarch of Baghdad and Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ of Cairo, but that this had changed after the arrival of the ‘Nasi’ who claimed to be the Exilarch’s local representative. Dated 1134 CE. It also reports some minutiae of personal and community life: a visitor from Ṣaʿda in northern Yemen is honoured by an invitation to lead the Aden community in prayer, an India trader’s illness in Qūṣ (Upper Egypt) has forced him to give up his voyage and return to Fusṭāṭ, and an incident is described where in a group of arguing notables, one notable hit another’s knee with his fan.
Durum
Badly torn, holes
Bağışçı(lar)
Schechter, S. (Solomon), 1847-1915; Taylor, Charles, 1840-1908
Fonlama
The digitisation of the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection has been sponsored by the Jewish Manuscript Preservation Society, the Friedberg Genizah Project Inc., and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.
Mizanpaj
53 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Materyal
Paper
Köken (Provenance)
Donated by Dr Solomon Schechter and his patron Dr Charles Taylor in 1898 as part of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection
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Dil Kodu 1
heb
Dil Kodu 2
jrb
Dil 1
Hebrew
Dil 2
Judeo-Arabic
Metadata Hakları
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