University of Pennsylvania, Halper 463

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DS ID:

DS26058

Shelfmark:

Halper 463

Title:

Signature of the Exilarch David

Signatures

Author:

Daṿid, Naśi, 12th century

Place:

Orient

Date:

mid-12th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

nearly complete, torn; verso is blank

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : nearly complete, torn; verso is blank

Note:

A signature on an otherwise blank piece of paper, possibly an ex libris inscribed on the first page of a codex. It reads, in rough cursive script: הודו ליי׳ כי טוב \ מרשות אדוננו \ דוד הנשיא הגדול \ ראש גליות כל ישראל \ יעזרהם אלהים על כלל. Possibly referring to David ben Zakai, who reigned as the Exilarch between 917 and 940, but more likely the later, 12th century Exilarch mentioned by...
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Bookplates

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940421393503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3vm43g3f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania