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Detail View: Genizah Collection:

Reference number: 
Gaster Heb. ms. 1623/3
Image Number: 
JRL1301345
Image Title: 
Qissat mujadalat al-usquf
Translated Image Title: 
Account of the Polemic of the Priest
Subject: 
Polemics
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
156 mm
Item width: 
60 mm
Folio: 
12 / 12 leaves, verso
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Interrelation fragments: 
Gaster Heb. ms. 1623/3 fragments from same booklet
Bibliographic Reference: 
Alexander, P. and S. Butbul, 'Rylands Gaster Heb. Ms. 1623/3 and the Qissat Mujadalat al-Usquf', in R. Smithuis and P.S. Alexander (eds), From Cairo to Manchester: Studies in the Rylands Genizah Fragments (Oxford, 2013), pp. 249-89, esp. pp. 278-9 (edition, commentary).
Notes: 
18 lines. Text related to the Qissa. Text partially faded. Measurements are those of the present overall size of the booklet.
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 technique: 
Digital capture by JRUL Imaging Services
Date image captured: 
2012-09-27
Date: added: 
2009-12
Metadata language: 
eng-GB