COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
A 1158 - 1
Obverse:
A 1158 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0800430dc
Image Title:
Halakhic text?
Subject:
Jewish law
Section:
Title-page and beginning of introduction
Language:
Hebrew
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
173 mm
Item width:
105 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Bibliographic Reference:
Sklare, D.E., Samuel ben Hofni Gaon and his cultural world: texts and studies (Leiden/New York/Koeln, 1996), p. 19. Cf.
Notes:
17 lines. Chapter on oaths? Text virtually faded. It should be noted in this context that both Hai ben Sherira Gaon and Samuel ben Hofni Gaon are known to have written a treatise on this topic in Judeo-Arabic, a Kitab al-Ayman.
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:
A01158-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-09-11
Date: added:
2008-03
Metadata language:
eng-GB
