University of Pennsylvania, Halper 219

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25943

Shelfmark:

Halper 219

Title:

Liturgical poems, probably for funeral services

Liturgical poems

Place:

Orient

Date:

12th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

complete, consecutive; folded in reverse

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): complete, consecutive; folded in reverse

Note:

Verse endings are signified by a punctus, strophe endings by a sof pasuḳ and paragraph break.
Fol. 1 recto and the upper third of the verso: under the heading אחרת לחכם a dirge of six strophes, four rhymed verses each (except for the final strophe which has 6). Apparently not intended for any specific sage.
Starts: האספו אנשי אמת. This dirge appears in Cambridge TS K25.15 where it is attributed (in the heading) toישועה הכהן בן יוסף הדיין. This poem was published by Sarah Cohen, Tarbits v. 69 (2000, p.449-460) on p. 460, from a different fragment: JTSA ENA 2165.
The remainder of the fragment, under the heading אחרת, contains the first eight strophes of a Eulogy poem בן אדם אל, probably intended for a Rosh Yeshivah in Erets Israel.
Four rhyming verses each, the first starts בן אדם followed by the acrostic א-ת at the head of each verse (the fragment reaches verse ס).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Libraries).

Keyword:

Jewish mourning customs

Eulogies

Early works

Jewish ethics

Jewish funeral rites and ceremonies

Dirges

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940419003503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3639kq0r/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania