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Reference number: 
A 571 - 2
Obverse: 
A 571 - 1
Image Number: 
JRL0709406dc
Image Title: 
Halakhic texts
Subject: 
Jewish law
Date created: 
1667-02-06 (?) and 1667-02-25
Place covered: 
Egypt: Alexandria
Place covered: 
Egypt: Cairo
Language: 
Hebrew
Language: 
Aramaic
Script: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Numerals: alphanumerical
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
188 mm
Item width: 
279 mm
Folio: 
1+2 / 2 leaves conjoined, verso
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Oriental
Notes: 
33 lines. Written in different hands on a variety of topics. Novellae. On the right, text on tearing of the garment on receiving the news of a bereavement based on Talmud Bavli - Mo`ed katan 22b. The Rosh (Rabbi Asher ben Yehiel) quoted. Afterwards, text on the honour due to scholars based on Talmud Bavli - Kiddushin 33b. Elijah ben Hayyim mentioned on line 27. Text partially faded. On the left, short piece on Proverbs 22.5 ("tsinnim pahim") as interpreted by Talmud Bavli - Bava metsia 107b etc. On punishment sent by God through heat and cold. Line one mentions Alexandria ("No Amon") and a date, which seems to be expressed as 12 Shevat 427 AM. Line 12 mentions the place Mitsrayim and a date, which is expressed as Thursday evening, 1 Adar 427 AM. Afterwards, piece on leaven on Passover ("hamets").
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: 
A00571-2
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-06-26
Date: added: 
2008-02
Metadata language: 
eng-GB