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Detail View: Genizah Collection:

Reference number: 
Ar. 677 - 1
Obverse: 
Ar. 677 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0910282dc
Image Title: 
Astronomical/philosophical/medical work?
Subject: 
Medicine
Subject: 
Astronomy
Subject: 
Philosophy
Description: 
Badly torn, stained and mutilated. A few legible words, which may point to astronomical or philosophical or medical contents: "min ajram kathira" (from many bodies = i.e. celestial bodies?); "al-ajram as-sigar as-sulba" (the bodies of small backbone); "waqaa mina-l-harr wa-ditharuhum min –" (protection from the heat and their cover is from -); fi al-badan (in the body).
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Arabic
Support material: 
Paper
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Interrelation fragments: 
Ar. 652-1, 652-2 and Ar. 654-1, 654-2.
Notes: 
Torn and stained.
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: 
PAR00677-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by JRUL Imaging Services
Date image captured: 
2009-02-18
Date: added: 
2009-11
Metadata language: 
eng-GB