University of Pennsylvania, Halper 477

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25962

Shelfmark:

Halper 477

Title:

Calendar of significant days and New Moons, (Hebrew) 4924

Calendar

Place:

Orient

Date:

1163 or 1164

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

non-consecutive; folio 1 nearly complete; folio 2 torn in lower corners, erasures on verso

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 fols. : non-consecutive; folio 1 nearly complete; folio 2 torn in lower corners, erasures on verso

Note:

Fol. 1 is the first folio of this booklet. Its recto bore only the title referring to the year by its cyclical title "the third year of cycle 260". The remaining empty space has a secondary inscription, a writing exercise in a rough square hand with many mistakes, probably that of a child. The content starts on the verso, by introducing the year by its number according to the count to...
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Astronomy in rabbinical literature

Early works

Religious calendars--Judaism

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940421543503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p39p2wr02/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania