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DS ID:

DS25742

Shelfmark:

Halper 274

Title:

Liturgical poems for mourners

Liturgical poems

Author:

Yoshayah ben Neḥemyah, ha-Ḥazan

Yoshayah ben Neḥemyah ha-Ḥazan WIKIDATA

Place:

Orient

Date:

11th century?

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

consecutive; losses along upper and exterior edges

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): consecutive; losses along upper and exterior edges

Note:

Only fol. 1r is fully vocalized.
The first segment of the fragment is a Tsiduk ha-din, apparently unrhymed. The beginning is missing. Ends כי מעשה ידיו כולם. The second, and final segment starts on the verso of fol. 1 l. 3 אל ל]בו יתן החי ויפקח עיין], constructed of four-verse strophes.
The content ends towards the bottom of fol. 2 verso, followed by a colophon, marked by a graphic border. It readsחזק לרב יאשיה החזן\ בירבי נחמיה ראש\ הפרק תנצב"ה, which identifies the author of the dirges.
The exact same colophon is found on a fragment of liturgical pieces in British Library Or. 5557A fols. 47-58. This Josiah's ḳetubah written to Kharima bat Isaac, is in Oxford Bodleian Heb. a. 2 fol. 1 (Cowely 2805, 1) dated 1055.
His father the Rosh Perek of Fustat is the recipient of a responsum of R Ḥai Gaon in Cambridge NS 324.112 Mosseri VII 157, dated April 1037 (Gil, Be-Malkhut Ishmael, 1997, vol. II no. 40), in which our author is blessed by the Gaon (l. 14).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Jewish mourning customs

Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew

Piyutim

Dirges

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940419543503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3gb1z20n/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania