University of Pennsylvania, Halper 321

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS26015

Shelfmark:

Halper 321

Title:

Dialectic poem between wine and water

Poetry

Author:

Yehudah ben Eliyahu, ha-Zaḳen

Yehudah ben Eliyahu ha-Zaḳen WIKIDATA

Place:

Orient

Date:

12th century-13th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

nearly complete; losses along edges

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : nearly complete; losses along edges

Note:

Strophe endings denoted by a sof pasuḳ.
Nearly three strophes (ו-ד-ה) from יום עמדו לריב לפני עם סגולה (Davidson, TMHP 1877י) a poetic debate between wine and water by Judah ben Elijah, in which each strophe upholds an alternating side of a debate.
Each strophe has eight lines, seven rhyme and the last ends הו-; sporadically vocalized; a complete version is found in a bifolium, Cambridge 8 K15 9: the acrostic signature reads יהודה בן אליהו חזק.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420013503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3x63bq23/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania