Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 164: Gaonic responsum on the sale of preserves with leaven contents after Passover Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 164: Gaonic responsum on the sale of preserves with leaven contents after Passover 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/. The full version of this lengthy responsum appears in the collection published by S. Asaf: Teshuvot ha-Geʾonim / Simhah Assaf [ed.]. Jerusalem : Hebrew University, 1927, no. 7, p. 29-32; Otsar ha-geʾonim / B. Lewin [ed.]. Haifa ; Jerusalem, [s.n.], 1928-1943, v. 3, no. 133, the text parallel to this fragment is found there, p. 50 l. 26 אית בהכין – p. 51 l. 5 מין איסור; Talmudic excerpts can be gleaned from the text, including passages from Pesaḥim 5b and 30a. Condition: fragment, from center or lower section of fol.; faded; verso is blank. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 164 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940418503503681 Hebrew; Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE) Gaonic responsum on the sale of preserves with leaven contents after Passover Ḥai ben Sherira,

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 13 X 22.5 cm Columns: 1; lines: 11 extant (recto); ruling method: broad spaces between lines as found in some antique copies of Gaonic responsa (e. g. Oxford Bodleian Heb. ben 10 fols. 79-82, Cowely 2833, 43). Hebrew Oriental semi-square Material applied: black ink

10th century-12th century?

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