University of Pennsylvania, Halper 297

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DS ID:

DS25777

Shelfmark:

Halper 297

Title:

Dirges

Lamentations

Place:

Orient

Date:

13th century?

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

non-consecutive

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): non-consecutive

Note:

Verse endings denoted by a punctus.
A fragment from a series of dirges (Aftarot). Although clearly intended for a famous person, it is probably formulary as no specific name is mentioned.
(fol. 1) A. The final two strophes of a prelude to a eulogy. Four verses each, the first three rhyme, the fourth end with the word ארץ. This scheme is identical to a poem of this type by Judah ha-Levi, אליכם קורא ואתכם יזרה (Davidson, TMHP 5124; in the Diṿan published by Heinrich Brody, Berlin, Ḥevrat Meḳitse nirdamim, 1910, vol. 2, p. 71).
B. The first three strophes of the next dirge, which starts קול בכיה בתאניה under a heading suggesting it be chanted to the melody of יום חובי. Six verses per strophe, the first 5 rhyme, the sixth ends רה-.
(fol. 2) C. The last two strophes of an unknown dirge whose refrain starts כל עץ. Five rhyming verses per strophe.
D. The first 9 verses of a dirge that starts אהל צדיק איכה, under the heading: ל[חן:] איה כבוד אל suggesting that it be chanted to the melody of this dirge by Judah ha-Levi (for Aaron al-Amʹani, Brody, ibid. vol. I p. 2).
This dirge has been published by H. Schirman, Shirim ḥadashim min ha-genizah / Jefim Schirman [ed.]. Yerushalayim : ha-Aḳademiyah ha-Leʾumit ha-Yiśreʾelit le-Madaʹim, 1966 p. 266, from Cambridge TS NS 194.23 (there: אהל צדק איכה), and attributed to Judah ha-Levi. There it appears under the heading: ג׳ירה פי בן צדיק, which raises the possibility that it was composed in honor of a specific...
Republished from a Yemenite manuscript by Y. Ratshabi, Sinai v. 85 (1979), p. 124. See E. Fleischer, Asupot, v. 5 (1991), p. 113.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Libraries).

Keyword:

Jewish mourning customs

Eulogies

Death--Religious aspects--Judaism

Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew

Dirges

Ẓaddik, Joseph ben Jacob Ibn, 1075-1149

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940419783503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3rn30s38/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania