COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 3258 - 1
Obverse:
B 3258 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0702442dc
Image Title:
Guide of the Perplexed
Subject:
Philosophy
Creator:
Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Japheth ben Solomon ha-Levi ha-Parnas (12th cent.)?
Creator Role:
Scribe
Source title:
Dalalat al-Ha'irin
Translated source title:
Guide of the Perplexed
Section:
Part I, Chapters 56 (on the left) and 57 (on the right)
Citation reference:
Munk edition, vol. 1, f. 68b.9-16 (on the left); f. 69b.12-6 (on the right)
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
125 mm
Item width:
314 mm
Folio:
1+2 / 2 leaves conjoined, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Notes:
9 lines. The scribe is famous for his authorized copy of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Oxford, Bodl. 577) and the known copyist of numerous Genizah fragments of Rabbinic classics.
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:
B03258-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-01-24
Date: added:
2007-03
Metadata language:
eng-GB
