COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 2535 - 2
Obverse:
B 2535 - 1
Image Number:
JRL0803860dc
Image Title:
Passover Haggadah
Subject:
Passover Haggadah
Creator:
Solomon ha-Levi (13th cent.)
Creator Role:
Scribe
Source title:
Passover Haggadah
Section:
Maggid (on the right), Hallel (on the left)
Citation reference:
D. Goldschmidt, Haggadah shel Pesah (Jerusalem, 1960), pp. 122.11-2 (on the right), 126.14-5 (on the left, Psalm 113.3-5)
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Vocalisation:
Vocalisation
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
103 mm
Item width:
259 mm
Folio:
1+2 / 2 leaves conjoined, verso
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Notes:
7 lines. Hebrew text and the Judeo-Arabic translation alternate per sentence by sentence. The Genizah contains numerous fragments of Solomon's copies of texts by Maimonides, Alfasi and of other classics. He was the son of Samuel b. Sa`adiah the Judge (early 13th cent., Fustat). He often discarded copies.
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:
B02535-2
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2008-02-06
Date: added:
2008-08
Metadata language:
eng-GB
