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Reference number: 
A 930 - 1
Obverse: 
A 930 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0710775dc
Image Title: 
Kitab al-Nafaqat?
Subject: 
Jewish law
Creator: 
Samuel ben Hophni (d. 1013)?
Creator Role: 
Author
Source title: 
Kitab al-Nafaqat?
Translated source title: 
Treatise on Support Payments
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
125 mm
Item width: 
80 mm
Folio: 
1+2 / 2 leaves conjoined, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Oriental
Interrelation fragments: 
Apparently from the same manuscript as Cambridge, University Library, T-S Arab. 48.215 and Oxford, Bodl. Heb. d.64, f. 25-6 (cat. no. 2822/8)
Bibliographic Reference: 
Sklare, D.E., Samuel ben Hofni Gaon and his cultural world: texts and studies (Leiden/New York/Koeln, 1996), p. 21.
Bibliographic Reference: 
Assaf, S. in Sinai 17 (1948), pp. 118-35 (= partial edition of above work from Oxford, Bodl. (Heb.) 2827/25).
Notes: 
16 lines. On marital law. Mishnah Ketubbot 9.9 cited (on the left). Samuel ben Hofni mentions the above work in his commentary on Deuteronomy.
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: 
A00930-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-08-08
Date: added: 
2007-11
Metadata language: 
eng-GB