Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 155: Responsum on the authority of calendation and the additional Festival Days in the diaspora Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 155: Responsum on the authority of calendation and the additional Festival Days in the diaspora 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 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. Condition: 1 fasc., consecutive (Halper: fastened by string). United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 155 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940418433503681 Hebrew Responsum on the authority of calendation and the additional Festival Days in the diaspora Ḥai ben Sherira,

Paper

 20 X 14.4 cm Columns: 1; lines: 15-16. Hebrew Oriental semi-cursive vocalization (Tiberian) Material applied: black ink

12th century-14th century?

Orient Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library). Adler. Calendar, Jewish , Early works to 1800