COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
A 414 - 2
Obverse:
A 414 - 1
Image Number:
JRL0701791dc
Image Title:
Astronomical table
Subject:
Astronomy
Creator:
Zacuto, Abraham (d. 1515)?
Creator Role:
Author
Date created:
16th century
Time period covered:
16th Century CE
Language:
Hebrew
Script:
Numerals: alphanumerical
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
207 mm
Item width:
154 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Sephardic
Bibliographic Reference:
Goldstein, B.R., 'A Table of New Moons from 1501 to 1577 in a Hebrew Fragment Preserved in the John Rylands Library', Aleph 13/1 (2013) 11-26 (partial transcription, translation, commentary).
Notes:
36 lines. Table for the new moons (moladot or mean conjunctions of sun and moon) and new moon days of each calendar month of 1501-1502. For the conversion of dates from the Jewish to the Julian calendar. Explanations added. Marginal computation.
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:
A00414-2
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-01-09
Date: added:
2007-02
Metadata language:
eng-GB
