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Reference number: 
A 1019 - 2
Obverse: 
A 1019 - 1
Image Number: 
JRL050180dc
Image Title: 
Maimonides autograph
Subject: 
Medicine
Creator: 
Galen
Creator Role: 
Author
Creator: 
Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
Creator Role: 
Compiler
Creator Role: 
Scribe
Source title: 
Epitomes of Galen
Alternative source title: 
Mukhtasarat
Creation site: 
Egypt: Fustat
Date created: 
1135-1204
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Arabic
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
131 mm
Item width: 
60 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Oriental
Interrelation fragments: 
A 1019 and the 2 x 2 conjoined fragments of Cambridge, University Library, T-S Ar. 21.112 from same manuscript; with a join between A 1019 and Cambridge fragment four
Bibliographic Reference: 
Stern, S.M. in Maimonidis Commentarius in Mischnam (vol. 3), pp. 11-29 and Plates I-IV. Cf.
Bibliographic Reference: 
Hopkins, S., 'A new autograph fragment of Maimonides's Epitomes of Galen (De Locis Affectis)', Bulletin of the SOAS 57, 1994, pp. 126-32 (facs. ed., transcription, commentary).
Notes: 
18 lines. Part of an abbreviation of one of Galen's pathological treatises "On the affected parts". Marginal note by Maimonides in Arabic script. In total, he is thought to have abbreviated 21 works of Galen (about 10 of which are preserved).
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
Access rights: 
Creative Commons License
Digital identifier: 
Syriac Galen Palimpsest Exhibition 2020
Image sequence number: 
A01019-2
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2008-05-21
Date: added: 
2009-03
Metadata language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Genizah