University of Pennsylvania, Halper 167

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25838

Shelfmark:

Halper 167

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:

folio 1, losses at corners; folio 2 lacking lower half and upper exterior corner

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 fols. : folio 1, losses at corners; folio 2 lacking lower half and upper exterior corner

Note:

Text breaks denoted by a sof pasuḳ plus a space.
Fragments from a treatise on prayer including much Talmudic citations. The first fol. is similar in style to the general preface of the Judeo-Arabic monographs of R. Saʹadia Gaon and Samuel ben Ḥofni Gaon.
It deals with the general principle and value of the minyan, based on Sanhedrin 2a and Berakhot 8a. Fol. 2 is more legalistic, methodically describing the variant conditions (שרט) that effect the law of repeating the ʻAmidah after mistaken omission, based on Berakhot 29b.
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, or perhaps the Treatise on prayer compsed by Samuels son Israel (see below, 168).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Early works

Prayer--Judaism

Judaism--Liturgy

Minyan

Geonic literature

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940418533503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3cz32p8v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania