Geniza Lab

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 ‘//’ 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 is also Arabic script and Rūmī (Greek/Coptic) numerals in different places on the page. (Information from CUDL.)