COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
A 264 - 1
Obverse:
A 264 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0708684dc
Image Title:
Halakhic work
Subject:
Jewish law
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
159 mm
Item width:
79 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Interrelation fragments:
A 263 and A 264 probably from same manuscript
Bibliographic Reference:
Sklare, D.E., Samuel ben Hofni Gaon and his cultural world: texts and studies (Leiden/New York/Koeln, 1996), p. 22. See also.
Notes:
13 lines. On a woman's period of waiting between two marriages. Samuel ben Hophni Gaon is known to have written a treatise on this topic, the Kitab al-`Idda, of which a few folios have been preserved in manuscripts Oxford, Bod. 2827.6 and 2827.30. Compare this text to f. 10a of the first manuscript.
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:
A00264-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-06-13
Date: added:
2008-01
Metadata language:
eng-GB
