University of Pennsylvania, Halper 315

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DS ID:

DS26031

Shelfmark:

Halper 315

Title:

Collected poems

Poetry

Author:

Ibn Ezra, Isaac, active 12th century

Isaac ibn Ezra WIKIDATA

Place:

Orient

Date:

12th century-13th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

non-consecutive (Halper: outer sheet of fascicle); losses

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): non-consecutive (Halper: outer sheet of fascicle); losses

Note:

Each verse begins a new line; verses divided into hemistichs by a space, but no effort is made to unify the length of the halves into two consistent columns; sporadically vocalized.
Fol. 1r 1: A. The last eleven verses of́ העודף מחזיק בתומתך by Isaac ben Ezra, in Kamil meter. Published by M. Schmelzer: Shirim / Yitsḥaḳ ben Avraham ibn ʹEzra ; Menachem Schmelzer [ed.]. New York : JTS, 1980, no. 35.
Fol. 1r 13: B. In Wafir meter; the common Judeo-Arabic heading حرا ايضاَ (sic! in Arabic characters) indicating that the next poem was composed by the same poet as the previous: קרבי מפני דתך יחילון, six verses (Schmelzer, ibid. no. 19).
Fol. 1v 6: C. under similar heading, the short poem למתי הזמן יטרח ואשא. (Schmelzer, ibid. p. 25, no. 20).
Fol. 1v 9-16: D. copied by a different, smaller hand. Under the heading יהודה הלוי, three two-verse riddles by Judah ha-Levi, each with a different heading (in Hebrew characters), which is the definition alluded to in the riddle.
Fol. 1v 9: 1. Heading פי סחאבה מטר / ומה בוכה בלי עין (Davidson, Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts 342ו; in the Diṿan published by Brody, Berlin, 1910, vol. II, p. 209).
Fol. 1v 12: 2. פי אלמראה / כלי מכיל לאין תכלית (TMHP 416כ; Brody ibid. 195).
Fol. 1v 15: 3. פי אלדיך / ומה מלך במגבעת אדומה (TMHP 360ו; Brody ibid. 202).
Fol. 2r-v: E. Isaac ben Ezra's יליד ימים אשר שניו חרוצות, twenty-eight verses, rhymed צות- (Schmelzer, ibid. pp. 17-19 no. 8).
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/9940419953503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3pn8z03t/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania