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Cairo Genizah : Calendrical

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Calendar for the year 4976 of the Era of Creation (= 1215-1216 CE), the 17th year of the 19-year cycle 262, dated according to the Era of Creation, the Seleucid Era, the Era of the Destruction of the Second Temple, the Era of the Exodus, the Era of the Hijra and the Coptic Era. The calendar mentions moladot of all months, days of the week of beginnings of months, day and time of tequfot, the dates and days of the week of all feasts and fasts, number of Sabbaths in this particular year and how the lections are to be read. It also gives correspondences with Muslim months. The calendar is in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi, the cantor of the Palestinian synagogue in Fusṭāṭ. </p>


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