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Reference number: 
B 2169 - 2
Obverse: 
B 2169 - 1
Image Number: 
JRL0802975dc
Image Title: 
Halakhic text
Subject: 
Essays
Subject: 
Jewish law
Section: 
6/7/8-12
Language: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Numerals: alphanumerical
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
184 mm
Item width: 
314 mm
Folio: 
1+2 / 2 leaves conjoined, verso
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Style Period: 
Oriental
Interrelation fragments: 
B 2169 and B 2208 from same manuscript (consecutive pages)
Notes: 
35 lines. Halakhic discussions on a number of topics. Nos. 8-9 on writing according to Halakhic rules (e.g. no. 9: writing of tefillin). In no. 10 the author raises halakhic questions on the washing of hands before a meal. Essay no. 11 is also a halakhic discussion on the washing of hands, now referring to Shulhan Arukh - Orah Hayyim 162.4. No. 12 is on blessings referring to Orah Hayyim 208.17. Marginal notes in same hand. Margins drawn in pencil.
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: 
B02169-2
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-12-12
Date: added: 
2008-06
Metadata language: 
eng-GB