Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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A 414 - 2
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Obverse:
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A 414 - 1
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Image Number:
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JRL0701791dc
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Image Title:
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Astronomical table
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Subject:
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Astronomy
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Creator:
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Zacuto, Abraham (d. 1515)?
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Date created:
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16th century
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Time period covered:
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16th Century CE
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Language:
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Hebrew
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Script:
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Numerals: alphanumerical
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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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207 mm
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Item width:
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154 mm
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Folio:
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1 / 1 leaf, verso
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Style Period:
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Sephardic
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Goldstein, B.R., 'A Table of New Moons from 1501 to 1577 in a Hebrew Fragment Preserved in the John Rylands Library', Aleph 13/1 (2013) 11-26 (partial transcription, translation, commentary).
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Notes:
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36 lines. Table for the new moons (moladot or mean conjunctions of sun and moon) and new moon days of each calendar month of 1501-1502. For the conversion of dates from the Jewish to the Julian calendar. Explanations added. Marginal computation.
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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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A00414-2
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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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2007-01-09
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Date: added:
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2007-02
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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