Cairo Genizah fragments

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:manuscript
gptkbp:contentType gptkb:philosophy
gptkb:poetry
gptkb:religion
legal documents
letters
scientific works
commercial records
gptkbp:currentLocation gptkb:British_Library
gptkb:John_Rylands_Library
gptkb:National_Library_of_Israel
gptkb:Cambridge_University_Library
gptkb:Jewish_Theological_Seminary_of_America
gptkbp:digitizedBy gptkb:Cambridge_Digital_Library
gptkb:Friedberg_Genizah_Project
gptkb:Genizah_Research_Unit
gptkbp:discoveredBy gptkb:Solomon_Schechter
gptkbp:foundIn gptkb:Ben_Ezra_Synagogue
gptkbp:fragmentNumber over 300,000
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Cairo Genizah fragments
gptkbp:language gptkb:Arabic
gptkb:Aramaic
gptkb:Hebrew
gptkb:Judeo-Arabic
gptkbp:location gptkb:Fustat,_Cairo,_Egypt
gptkbp:material gptkb:newspaper
parchment
gptkbp:notableFor personal letters
biblical manuscripts
Talmudic commentaries
letters of Maimonides
works of Saadia Gaon
business contracts
marriage contracts (ketubot)
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Cairo_Genizah
gptkbp:preservedIn stored in synagogue genizah
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Karaites
Jewish history
Middle Eastern history
medieval trade
Islamic history
Rabbanites
gptkbp:significance source for Mediterranean social history
source for medieval Jewish history
source for history of Arabic language
source for history of Hebrew language
gptkbp:startDate 9th to 19th centuries
gptkbp:UNESCOWorldHeritageSite yes
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Bodleian_Library_Hebrew_and_Jewish_collections
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7