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Reference number: 
A 612 - 1
Obverse: 
A 612 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0709517dc
Image Title: 
Prayer book
Subject: 
Kabbalah
Subject: 
Prayer
Source title: 
Alenu
Alternative source title: 
Ohilah le-El
Citation reference: 
See e.g. The Orot Sephardic Rosh Hashannah Mahazor (2002), pp. 380-2 (with minor variants)
Language: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Hebrew
Vocalisation: 
Tiberian
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
154 mm
Item width: 
97 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Notes: 
18 lines. Partially vocalised. Lines 1-8 Kabbalistic names to be read in silence. The Alenu starts on line 9 and finishes on line 20. It is followed by the introductory paragraph to (e.g. in the Ashkenazi rite, the liturgical poems inserted before) the repetition of the Amidah in the additional service on Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur (known as Ohilah le-El). Kabbalistic marginal notes (on the sefirot and the six extremities).
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: 
A00612-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-06-21
Date: added: 
2008-02
Metadata language: 
eng-GB