University of Pennsylvania, Halper 271

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25643

Shelfmark:

Halper 271

Title:

Collected piyutim for the Fast of Gedaliah

Piyyutim

Place:

Orient

Date:

12th century-14th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

non-consecutive, complete

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 fols. : non-consecutive, complete

Note:

Each strophe begins a new line; verse endings not corresponding with line endings denoted by a punctus.
A. (fol. 1) verses ע to the end, of a poem, probably a Seliḥah for the Fast of Gedaliah. There are four verses per strophe, each letter begins two verses. After ת there is an additional strophe, followed by the line יכמרו רחמיך אל שארית רחומים.
B. (fol. 2) Strophes ב-ו (Meḥayeh - Ḥanun) of a Ḳerovah le-Shemoneh ẹśreh for the Fast of Gedaliah, The beginning of this poem is found in Cambridge TS H4.28, where it starts ארץ ארץ ארץ השמעת דבר קולך.
Sporadically vocalized; our verses per strophe, the first two are of the same letter, the third starts בצום השביעי. After the contracted allusion to the blessing מחיה, is an additional allusion to the beginning of Ḳedushah: כתר יתנו לך (as is the standard Ḳedushah in Siddur R. ʻAmram, Warsaw, 1865, p. 10).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Texts

Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew

Seliḥot

edaliah, Fast of--Liturgy--Texts

Piyutim

Fasts and feasts--Judaism--Liturgy

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940419513503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3vh5d291/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania