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Reference number: 
A 694 - 1
Obverse: 
A 694 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0709689dc
Image Title: 
Hidāyat al-Qāri
Subject: 
Language and languages--Grammar
Creator: 
Abu 'l-Faraj Harun (11th cent.)
Creator Role: 
Author
Source title: 
Hidāyat al-Qāri
Translated source title: 
Guidance of the Reader
Section: 
Title and preface of the short version (see lines 3-4 and Eldar)
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
71 mm
Item width: 
153 mm
Folio: 
1+2 / 2 leaves conjoined, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Oriental
Bibliographic Reference: 
Eldar, I., The study of the art of correct reading as reflected in the medieval treatise Hidāyat al-Qāri (+ Guidance of the Reader) (Jerusalem, 1994, in Hebrew), p. 41 (described).
Notes: 
7 lines. This fragment has allowed Eldar to identify the Karaite author of the treatise.
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: 
A00694-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-07-03
Date: added: 
2007-10
Metadata language: 
eng-GB