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Recto: calendar for the year 5008 of the Era of Creation (= 1247-1248 CE), year 11 of the 19-year cycle 264. The calendar is dated according to the Era of Creation, the Seleucid Era, the Era of the Destruction of the Second Temple, the Era of the Exodus and position of the year in the 19-year and the Sabbatical cycles. The calendar mentions the intercalation, length of the variable months, the calendrical type of the year, moladot of all months, days of the week of beginnings of months, days of the week and dates of festivals and fasts, the date and time of the tequfot, as well as the time when prayers for rain begin. The sign \u2018//\u2019 is used for zero. Verso: calendrical texts written indifferent directions including 1) a chronology from Exodus to the year 5008 of the Era of Creation; 2) two calculations of molad Tišri of 5009 of the Era of Creation; 3) at the bottom of verso, written transversely a calculation of moladot of all months and the four tequfot for the year 5009 of the Era of Creation and molad Tišri of 5010 of the Era of Creation; 4) a separate calculation of molad Tišri of 5010 of the Era of Creation. All moladot on recto and verso are 12 hours higher than the correct values. Tequfot and days of the week of beginnings of months for 5009 of the Era of Creation are crossed out. There are Rūmī (Coptic) numerals in different places on the page.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "1264-1265 CE" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Calendrical" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "CUL" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Paper" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "L-G Misc. 54" }, { "label": "Note(s)", "value": "Starts with an invocation. Some text is crossed out. Text on the bottom of verso is written transversely in relation to text on recto and top of verso. The page was folded horizontally. Belongs with T-S K2.91." }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Cairo Genizah" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Lewis, Agnes Smith, 1843-1926; Gibson, Margaret Dunlop, 1843-1920" }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Judaeo-Arabic" }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "19 lines (recto); various lines (verso)" } ], "@type": "sc:Manifest", "attribution": "Provided by Cambridge University Library. Zooming image © Cambridge University Library, All rights reserved. Images made available for download are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 3.0) This metadata is published free of restrictions, under the terms of the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.", "structures": [{ "canvases": [ "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/MS-LG-MISC-00054/canvas/1", "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/MS-LG-MISC-00054/canvas/2" ], "@type": "sc:Range", "@id": "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/MS-LG-MISC-00054/range/DOCUMENT", "label": "Calendrical" }], "description": "
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