Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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A 397 - 1
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Obverse:
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A 397 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL0705358dc
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Image Title:
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Calendar
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Subject:
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Calendars
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Date created:
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1781
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Place covered:
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Egypt
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Language:
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Hebrew
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Script:
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Hebrew
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Support material:
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Paper
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Item height:
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115 mm
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Item width:
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235 mm
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Folio:
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1 / 1 leaf, recto
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Style Period:
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Oriental
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Medium:
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Ink (black and red)
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Notes:
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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.
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Discovery site:
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Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
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Current repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Former repository:
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Moses Gaster
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Fragments
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Image rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Work rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access rights:
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 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester |
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Image sequence number:
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A00397-1
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Image technique:
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Digital capture by Gten
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Date image captured:
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2007-03-27
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Date: added:
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2007-04
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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