Detail View: Genizah Collection:

Reference number: 
A 1804 - 1
Obverse: 
A 1804 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0801963dc
Image Title: 
Responsa
Subject: 
Responsa
Creator: 
Asher ben Jehiel (ca. 1250-1327)
Creator Role: 
Author
Source title: 
She'elot u-Teshuvot
Translated source title: 
Questions and Answers
Section: 
No. 175: difficult to establish; no. 176: kelal 36, siman 3; no. 177: unknown responsum; no. 178: kelal 105, siman 7
Language: 
Aramaic
Language: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Numerals: alphanumerical
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
279 mm
Item width: 
207 mm
Folio: 
1 / 3 leaves, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Sephardic
Interrelation fragments: 
A 813, A 1804 (all fragments) and the first fragment of A 1820 from same manuscript
Notes: 
27 lines. Collection of responsa. Responsa mostly known from the standard collection of Asher ben Jehiel (Rosh), where they appear, however, in a different order. Hai ben Sherira Gaon mentioned on line 14 and Ba`al ha-?Ma`or on line 19. Numbered (175)-178.
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: 
A01804-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-11-01
Date: added: 
2008-07
Metadata language: 
eng-GB