COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
A 571 - 1
Obverse:
A 571 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0709405dc
Image Title:
Halakhic texts
Subject:
Jewish law
Place covered:
Egypt: Rosetta
Place covered:
Egypt: Cairo
Language:
Hebrew
Language:
Aramaic
Script:
Hebrew
Script:
Numerals: alphanumerical
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
188 mm
Item width:
279 mm
Folio:
1+2 / 2 leaves conjoined, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Notes:
41 lines. Written in different hands on a variety of topics. Novellae. On the left, text on tearing of the garment on receiving the news of a bereavement based on Talmud Bavli - Mo`ed katan 22b. On the right, text on the guarantor for a marriage contract written in Rosetta ("Rashid") on 16 Shevat of a year which is difficult to decipher (compare lines 1 and 27). The Rabad (Rabbi Abraham ben David of Posquières) mentioned on line 2. Afterwards, piece on leaven on Passover ("hamets", continuation of the text on recto). Marginal notes.
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:
A00571-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-06-26
Date: added:
2008-02
Metadata language:
eng-GB
