Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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Rylands Genizah 1 - 1
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Obverse:
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Rylands Genizah 1 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL050271dc
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Image Title:
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Kol Nidre poem
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Subject:
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Liturgy and Poetry
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Date created:
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11th century, end?
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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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Parchment
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Item height:
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437 mm
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Item width:
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187 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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Bibliographic Reference:
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Wallenstein, M., 'Two fragments from the Cairo Geniza in the John Rylands Library, Manchester', Sinai 45, 1959, pp. 302-14, esp. 303-10 (in Hebrew) (transcription).
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Wallenstein, M., 'A unique Kol-Nidrê piyyut', Bulletin of the JRULM 41/2, 1959, pp. 488-500 (facsimile edition and transcription).
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Notes:
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39 lines. Alphabetic acrostic kerovah. A Hebrew poetic version of a formula to cancel foolish vows, parallel to the Aramaic prose kol nidre of the eve of Yom Kippur, used in a piyyut recited in the morning service on the eve of Rosh ha-Shanah.
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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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JRUL
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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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RGF00001-1
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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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2008-05-21
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Date: added:
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2009-03
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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