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Reference number: 
A 1215 - 1
Obverse: 
A 1215 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0800558dc
Image Title: 
Rare Mekhilta
Subject: 
Midrash
Source title: 
Mekhilta of Rabbi Simeon ben Yohai
Section: 
Exodus 12.47
Citation reference: 
Epstein/Melamed edition (Jerusalem, 1955), p. 36.24-6
Language: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
96 mm
Item width: 
101 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Sephardic
Interrelation fragments: 
From same manuscript: St. Petersburg, RNL, Evr. II A 268 (50 nearly full folios), A 1215, A 1477, A 1577, A 1579, A 1708, A 1714, A 1888, A 1904, B 8570 and other small fragments in Paris, New York and Cambridge (see Kahana for the details)
Bibliographic Reference: 
Kahana, M., Manuscripts of the Halakhic Midrashim: an annotated catalogue (Jerusalem, 1995; in Hebrew), pp. 52, 119, 148 (described).
Notes: 
4 lines
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
Image sequence number: 
A01215-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-09-11
Date: added: 
2008-03
Metadata language: 
eng-GB