COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
A 397 - 1
Obverse:
A 397 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0705358dc
Image Title:
Calendar
Subject:
Calendars
Date created:
1781
Place covered:
Egypt
Language:
Hebrew
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
115 mm
Item width:
235 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Medium:
Ink (black and red)
Notes:
15 lines.Text almost faded. Diagram in red ink. Jewish calendar for 1781 (the Jewish year difficult to decipher). The second row of the table contains general weather predictions per month relating to rain, the Nile, and storms. The third row lists some basic astronomical data and the Torah readings of the week.
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:
A00397-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-03-27
Date: added:
2007-04
Metadata language:
eng-GB
