Detail View: Genizah Collection:

Reference number: 
A 959 - 2
Obverse: 
A 959 - 1
Image Number: 
JRL0710860dc
Image Title: 
Two sermons
Subject: 
Sermons
Section: 
On the right: the binding of Isaac (see Genesis 22.2 and 21.12 on lines 13 and 14) from פרשת וירא (Genesis 18.1 ff.), on the left: פרשת נצבים (Deuteronomy 29.9 ff. with 30.5-6 and 15 quoted on lines 1-2 and 5)
Language: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Numerals: alphanumerical
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
160 mm
Item width: 
226 mm
Folio: 
1+2 / 2 leaves conjoined, verso
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Oriental
Interrelation fragments: 
A 959 and A 1317 possibly from same manuscript or otherwise related
Notes: 
28 lines. Solomon ben Abraham Algazi's (1610?-ca. 1683) collection of sermons "Shema Shlomo" mentioned on line 19 on the right, which was published in Izmir in 1659.
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: 
A00959-2
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-08-15
Date: added: 
2007-11
Metadata language: 
eng-GB
Metadata language: 
heb