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DS ID:

DS26116

Shelfmark:

Halper 155

Title:

Responsum on the authority of calendation and the additional Festival Days in the diaspora

Responsa

Author:

Hai ben Sherira, 939-1038

Hai Gaon WIKIDATA

Place:

Orient

Date:

12th century-14th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

1 fascicle, consecutive (Halper: fastened by string)

Physical Description:

Extent: 8 fols. : 1 fascicle, consecutive (Halper: fastened by string)

Note:

Text breaks are denoted by a sof pasuḳ or a space.
The fascicle contains most of R. Ḥai Gaʾon's Responsum as in the printed edition: Teshuvot ha-geʾonim / Yaʹaḳov Musafya [ed.]. Lyck : Ḥevrat Meḳitse nirdamin, 1864, ) p. 4 l.17 הרי הוא מחוסר - p. 6 l.3 במשוך היובל; vocalization as needed; contains several important variant readings.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Adler.

Keyword:

Early works

Pilgrim Festivals (Judaism)--Second days

Jewish calendar

Responsa

To 1040

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940418433503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3pg1j66m/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania