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Reference number: 
B 2780 - 7
Obverse: 
B 2780 - 8
Image Number: 
JRL0804385dc
Image Title: 
Hovot ha-Levavot
Subject: 
Ethics
Subject: 
Philosophy
Creator: 
Tibbon, Judah ben Saul ibn (ca. 1120-ca. 1190)
Creator Role: 
Translator
Creator: 
Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda (11th cent.)
Creator Role: 
Author
Source title: 
Hovot ha-Levavot
Alternative source title: 
Kitab al-Hidaya ila Fara'id al-Qulub
Translated source title: 
Duties of the Hearts
Section: 
End of Chapter I (שער היחוד)
Citation reference: 
S.G. Stern edition (Vienna, 1856, 2nd print). On the left: pp. 67.26-68.13 (section 10), on the right: as yet unidentified
Language: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
105 mm
Item width: 
168 mm
Folio: 
7+8 / 8 leaves (4 x 2 conjoined), recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Italian
Interrelation fragments: 
All fragments of A 1103, A 1737, A 1853 (except for A 1853-1/2), B 2780 and British Library, Or. 5539 (Marg. Cat. 898, 60 folios) from same manuscript. First three B 2780 fragments (B 2780-1/6) consecutive and belonging to the same quire.
Notes: 
13 lines. These two folios probably belong to the next quire.
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: 
B02780-7
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2008-02-26
Date: added: 
2008-10
Metadata language: 
eng-GB
Metadata language: 
heb