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Reference number: 
B 6289 - 1
Obverse: 
B 6289 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0805516dc
Image Title: 
Egyptian scroll
Subject: 
Historiography
Creator: 
Samuel ha-Shelishi (10th-11th cent.)
Creator Role: 
Author
Source title: 
Megillat Mitsrayim
Citation reference: 
J. Mann, The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine under the Faṭimid caliphs, 2 vols (Oxford 1920-2), vol. 2, p. 35.20-21 (lines 2-7)
Language: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Hebrew
Vocalisation: 
Tiberian
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
76 mm
Item width: 
101 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Notes: 
7 lines. Megillat Mitsrayim is a historical document describing an anti-Jewish outbreak in 1012 in Egypt.
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: 
B06289-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2008-04-01
Date: added: 
2008-11
Metadata language: 
eng-GB