Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 140: Gaonic Talmud digest, Shabat 62a-66b; 73a-74b Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 140: Gaonic Talmud digest, Shabat 62a-66b; 73a-74b are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Text break denoted by two spaces; The text summarizes the halakhic material in its Talmudic order, with additional hermeneutic comments; Fol. 1 is based on Shabbat 62-66 with very little additional material; fol. 2 is based on ibid., 73-74 with more extensive post-Talmudic supplements; It is possible that some of this supplementary text may have influenced Ḥananel ben Ḥushiel, as there is some similarity between them. This is particulalry so in Ḥananel's comment at the end of 74b, presented in the name of יש מי שאומרים, which appears here verbatum; Primitive plenum orthography. Examples: מעיקארא; חמארא; דפאריס; בוריר; דסאליק. Condition: non-consecutive (Halper: outer sheet of fasc.); damage at center of the interior edge. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 140 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940418293503681 Hebrew; Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE) Gaonic Talmud digest, Shabat 62a-66b; 73a-74b

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 19.7 X 14.9 cm Columns: 1; lines: 26-29. Hebrew Oriental semi-square primitive plenum orthography Material applied: black ink

11th century-12th century?

Orient Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Sabbath , Early works to 1800