COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 6109 - 2
Obverse:
B 6109 - 1
Image Number:
JRL0805120dc
Image Title:
Mishneh Torah
Subject:
Mishneh Torah
Creator:
Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Solomon ha-Levi (13th cent.)
Creator Role:
Scribe
Source title:
Mishneh Torah. Hilkhot Shekhirut.
Section:
10.1-2
Language:
Hebrew
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
144 mm
Item width:
159 mm
Folio:
1 / 4 leaves, verso
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Interrelation fragments:
From same manuscript: B 2841, B 6109 (first fragment only, i.e. B 6109-1/2) and Strasbourg 4110.178 with join between B 2841 and B 6109; B 6109 fragments unrelated
Notes:
11 lines. The Genizah contains numerous fragments of Solomon's copies of texts by Maimonides, Alfasi and of other classics. He was the son of Samuel b. Sa`adiah the Judge (early 13th cent., Fustat). He often discarded copies. Most of the text faded.
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:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number:
B06109-2
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2008-03-18
Date: added:
2008-11
Metadata language:
eng-GB
