COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 2800 - 2
Obverse:
B 2800 - 1
Image Number:
JRL0804492dc
Image Title:
Halakhic text
Subject:
Jewish law
Language:
Arabic
Language:
Hebrew
Script:
Numerals: alphanumerical?
Script:
Hebrew
Vocalisation:
Tiberian
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
175 mm
Item width:
138 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Notes:
30 lines. On financial laws and theft. Second piece from line 7 written in Hebrew except for a few words. Bible quotations: Leviticus 19.13 (line 8), Proverbs 3.28 (lines 8-9), Jeremiah 21.12 or 22.3 (line 9), Zechariah 7.10 (lines 9-10), Jeremiah 7.6 (line 10), Ezekiel 22.29 (lines 11-2), Exodus 18.22 (line 13). Talmud Bavli - Sanhedrin 32b (and Deuteronomy 16.20) quoted in abbreviated form on lines 16-21. Text partially illegible. Sporadic vocalisation.
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:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number:
B02800-2
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2008-02-27
Date: added:
2009-04
Metadata language:
eng-GB
