University of Pennsylvania, Halper 168

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25695

Shelfmark:

Halper 168

Title:

Judeo-Arabic treatise on prayer

Treatise on prayer

Place:

Orient

Date:

12th century-13th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Aramaic WIKIDATA

Material:

nearly-complete

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : nearly-complete

Note:

Text breaks are denoted by 2-3 spaces; fascicle number "ב" on recto.
A fol. from a treatise on prayer including much Talmudic citation, dealing with the general principles behind regulated daily prayer (perhaps an introduction), and the Talmudic sources of the three daily prayers, Mishnah Berakhot IV 1,3, Talmud ibid. 31a, 22b.
Among the known Gaonic monographs, the content here is most fitting to Samuel ben Ḥofni Gaon's Kitab al-ʹimma, a title found in a booklist published by Schechter: Saadyana / S. Schechter [ed.]. Cambridge : Deighton and Bell, 1903, p. 54.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Early works

Jewish law

Prayer--Judaism

Mishnah

Talmud. Berakhot

Talmud

Judaism--Liturgy

Geonic literature

Mishnah. Berakhot

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940418543503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3862bw5h/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania