University of Pennsylvania, Halper 319

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25647

Shelfmark:

Halper 319

Title:

Panegyric poem in honor of an unspecified bridegroom

Panegyric

Place:

Orient

Date:

11th century-13th century?

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

superscription partially torn, losses; faded; widthwise, mail format folded; verso in different hand

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : superscription partially torn, losses; faded; widthwise, mail format folded; verso in different hand

Note:

Verse endings denoted by a punctus.
1r, probably the primary inscription, a document in Judeo-Arabic preventing a blind ḥazan named Sheʻerit ben Japheth from leading the services. A court appointment of a representative of an orphan, whose deceased father bears this same name, is found in Cambridge TS 10 J7 fol. 17 (recorded by S. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, vol. III pp. 295-296). This Sheʻerit died in Fustat. See also שארית...
1v contains a poem, in Wafir meter, in honor of an unspecified bridegroom (represented in the formulary format: [פל[וני. Starts אשורר שיר לציר חוקר. Forty verses, monorhymed ים-. This appears to be a secondary inscription on the blank (or erased) side of the document on side 1.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Poetry

Laudatory poetry, Hebrew

Weddings

Judaism--Functionaries

Sheʼerit, ha-Ḥazzan, active 12th century

Letters

Legal documents

Geonic literature

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940419993503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p35q4s502/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania