Detail View: Genizah Collection:

Reference number: 
A 616 - 2
Obverse: 
A 616 - 1
Image Number: 
JRL0709526dc
Image Title: 
Genesis commentary
Subject: 
Philosophy
Subject: 
Bible--Commentaries
Subject: 
Ethics
Source title: 
Commentary on Genesis
Section: 
42
Language: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Numerals: alphanumerical
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
84 mm
Item width: 
106 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Sephardic
Interrelation fragments: 
Join between A 616 and A 966
Notes: 
12 lines. Genesis 42.15 quoted on line 15. Curiously, Leviticus 24.12 is quoted in larger letters. Last 4 lines belong to a piece entitled "ma'amar gedolah" (see A 616). Includes citation from Talmud Bavli - Berakhot 33a.
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: 
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number: 
A00616-2
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-06-27
Date: added: 
2008-02
Metadata language: 
eng-GB