[Calendar of significant days and New Moons, (Hebrew) 4924] : manuscript

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1163

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Amram.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Religious calendars -- Judaism; Astronomy in rabbinical literature -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy in rabbinical literature

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

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

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

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 Creation, Seleucid, and to the Destruction of the Temple; fol. 2 covers the months of Nissan-Av, the rest is obliterated. The calendar lists the day of the week of each New Moon sighting (molad), holidays and fasts. The time of the equinox is also provided.; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 477

Collection:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)