Detail View: Genizah Collection:

Reference number: 
B 2597 - 2 & B 4094 - 2
Obverse: 
B 2597 - 1 & B 4094 - 1
Image Number: 
JRL022698dc
Image Title: 
Maimonides autograph
Subject: 
Philosophy
Creator: 
Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
Creator Role: 
Scribe
Creator Role: 
Author
Source title: 
Dalalat al-Ha'irin
Translated source title: 
Guide of the Perplexed
Section: 
Book II, Chapter 30
Citation reference: 
Munk edition, p. 70b6-17
Creation site: 
Egypt: Fustat
Date created: 
1135-1204
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
111 mm
Item width: 
162 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Interrelation fragments: 
Join between B 2597, B 4094 and Cambridge, University Library, Or.1081.2.44 From same manuscript: -Cambridge, University Library, T-S 10Ka4.1 -Cambridge, University Library, Mosseri VIII.35 -New York, Jewish Theological Seminary, ENA 3198.5
Bibliographic Reference: 
Hopkins, S., 'Two new Maimonidean autographs in the John Rylands University Library', Bulletin of the JRULM 67/2, 1984/5, pp. 710-35. (facs. edition, transcription, translation)
Bibliographic Reference: 
Outhwaite, B. and F. Niessen, 'A newly discovered autograph fragment of Maimonides' 'Guide for the Perplexed' from the Cairo Genizah', Journal of Jewish Studies 57/2 (2006), pp. 287-95. (facs. edition)
Bibliographic Reference: 
Hopkins, S., 'An unpublished autograph fragment of Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed', Bulletin of the SOAS 50/3, 1987, pp. 465-9. (mentioned)
Notes: 
9 lines. For first line in margin compare Munk 70b17-21.
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: 
B02597-2
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2008-05-21
Date: added: 
2009-03
Metadata language: 
eng-GB