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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: 
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: 
B02800-2
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2008-02-27
Date: added: 
2009-04
Metadata language: 
eng-GB