Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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A 414 - 1
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Obverse:
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A 414 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL0701790dc
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Image Title:
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Astronomical table
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Subject:
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Astronomy
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Creator:
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Zacuto, Abraham (d. 1515)?
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Date created:
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16th century
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Time period covered:
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16th Century CE
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Language:
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Hebrew
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Script:
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Numerals: alphanumerical
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Script:
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Hebrew
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Support material:
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Paper
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Item height:
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207 mm
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Item width:
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154 mm
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Folio:
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1 / 1 leaf, recto
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Style Period:
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Sephardic
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Goldstein, B.R., 'A Table of New Moons from 1501 to 1577 in a Hebrew Fragment Preserved in the John Rylands Library', Aleph 13/1 (2013) 11-26 (partial transcription, translation, commentary).
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Notes:
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28 lines. Table for the new moons (moladot or mean conjunctions of sun and moon) and new moon days of 76 solar years from 1501-1577 relating to Rosh Hodesh Nisan only. For the conversion of the first day of each Jewish year to the Julian calendar. Date expressed as 1501 of the Incarnation. Calculations in the margin.
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Discovery site:
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Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
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Current repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Former repository:
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Moses Gaster
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Fragments
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Image rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access rights:
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Image sequence number:
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A00414-1
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Image technique:
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Digital capture by Gten
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Date image captured:
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2007-01-09
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Date: added:
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2007-02
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Metadata language:
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heb
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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