COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
Rylands Genizah 2 - 2
Obverse:
Rylands Genizah 2 - 1
Image Number:
JRL050274dc
Image Title:
Colophon
Subject:
Colophons
Creator:
Sahlan (10th cent.)
Creator Role:
Scribe
Creation site:
Egypt: Gaifa near Bilbais
Date created:
954
Place covered:
Egypt: Gaifa near Bilbais
People covered:
Sahlan (10th cent.)
Language:
Hebrew
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Parchment
Item height:
158 mm
Item width:
142 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Technique used:
Handwriting
Bibliographic Reference:
Wallenstein., M., 'A dated tenth century Hebrew parchment fragment', Bulletin of the JRULM 40, 1957/8, pp. 551-8 (facsimile edition, transcription, translation).
Bibliographic Reference:
Wallenstein, M., 'Two fragments from the Cairo Geniza in the John Rylands Library, Manchester', Sinai 45, 1959, pp. 302-14, esp. 310-4 (in Hebrew).
Bibliographic Reference:
Shaked, S., A tentative bibliography of Geniza documents, p. 180 (item 7).
Notes:
11 lines. Embellished colophon written in 954. Date expressed as 886 since the destruction of the Temple.
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:
RGF00002-2
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2004-11-02
Date: added:
2009-04
Metadata language:
eng-GB
