Detail View: Genizah Collection:

Reference number: 
B 2841 - 1
Obverse: 
B 2841 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0804565dc
Image Title: 
Mishneh Torah
Subject: 
Mishneh Torah
Creator: 
Solomon ha-Levi (13th cent.)
Creator Role: 
Scribe
Creator: 
Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
Creator Role: 
Author
Source title: 
Mishneh Torah. Hilkhot Shekhirut.
Section: 
9.11-10.1
Language: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
110 mm
Item width: 
158 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
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
Notes: 
7 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. Jotting in the bottom margin.
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: 
B02841-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2008-02-27
Date: added: 
2009-04
Metadata language: 
eng-GB