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Reference number: 
L 135 - 2
Obverse: 
L 135 - 1
Image Number: 
JRL050249dc
Image Title: 
Poems by Najara
Subject: 
Liturgy and Poetry
Creator: 
Najara, Israel ben Moses (1555?-1625?)
Creator Role: 
Author
Source title: 
She'erit Yisrael
Section: 
Numbered 7-8 (on the right), 8-9 (on the left)
Language: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Numerals: alphanumerical
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
149 mm
Item width: 
208 mm
Folio: 
1+2 / 4 leaves (2 x 2 conjoined), verso
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Sephardic
Interrelation fragments: 
A 1206, B 2967, B 3426 and L 135 (both fragments) from same manuscript. Folios with catchwords L 135 and A 1206 are consecutive. See also B 2244.
Bibliographic Reference: 
Davidson I, p. 145, no. 3081 (= No. 8 on fragment).
Bibliographic Reference: 
Davidson I, p. 71, no. 1534 (= No. 9).
Bibliographic Reference: 
Davidson II, p. 295, no. 819 (= No. 10).
Notes: 
25 lines. Collection of poems. Bakkashot for weekdays and (the first day of) months. The titles She'erit Yisrael and Mi-Zemirot Yisrael alternate per folio side. Incipits of no. 6 (which is visible on recto of this fragment) and no. 7 not immediately traced in Davidson.
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: 
L00135-2
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2008-05-21
Date: added: 
2009-03
Metadata language: 
eng-GB