Detail View: Genizah Collection:

Reference number: 
B 4934 - 1
Obverse: 
B 4934 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0706341dc
Image Title: 
Rabbinic text
Subject: 
Rabbinical literature
Creator: 
Abraham ben Isaac ibn al-Baqara (fl. 11th cent.)
Creator Role: 
Scribe
Date created: 
11th century
Language: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
81 mm
Item width: 
117 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Oriental
Bibliographic Reference: 
Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean society, 6 vols. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1967-93), vol. 3, pp. 12-3 (on the copyist).
Bibliographic Reference: 
Abrahamson, S., 'Iggerot Ge'onim', Tarbiz 31 (1962), pp. 50-1, 212-3 (on the copyist).
Bibliographic Reference: 
Danzig, N., A catalogue of fragments of Halakhah and Midrash from the Cairo Genizah in the Elkan Nathan Adler Collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (New York/Jerusalem, 1997), p. 51 of the introduction (in Hebrew, on the copyist).
Notes: 
10 lines. Copyist identified following two (among more) similar Talmud scrolls which mention his name in the colophon. Page meant to be turned vertically.
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: 
B04934-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-04-18
Date: added: 
2007-08
Metadata language: 
eng-GB