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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon, 1186-1237.
Contributor:
Judah, ha-Levi, active 12th century.
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Language:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Subjects (All):
Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon, 1186-1237--Autographs.
Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon.
Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon, 1186-1237.
Responsa--1040-1600.
Responsa.
Jewish law.
Domestic relations (Jewish law).
Liturgy and poetry.
Judeo-Arabic literature.
Genre:
Autographs.
Penn Provenance:
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Sulzberger.
Physical Description:
1 folio : complete; creased; torn into two halves along crease
Paper 27.6 X 20 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: vertical fold columns: 2 lines.
Contained In:
Cairo Genizah Collection
Other Title:
Inquiries and responsa of R. Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon ; Selected poems
Place of Publication:
[Orient], [publisher not identified], [1204-1237?]
Language Note:
Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Hebrew
Notes:
The recto contains three related inquiries, in three separate paragraphs. Each of the inquiries is signed with the common salutation ושכרו כפול מן השמים.
In the remaining exterior edge of the lower two thirds, written lengthwise to fit the open space, is R. Abraham's six-lines of reply, probably in his own hand. The reply starts with the headline אלגואב and is signed אברהם ברבי משה זצ״ל.
The inquiry deals with the debt of an unnamed widow. Published from this source in the edition edited by Goitein and Freimann: Teshuvot / Avraham ben ha-Rambam ; Abraham Freimann and S.D. Goitein [editors]. Jersualem : Meḳitse nirdamin, 1937, p 202-204, item no. 118.
The folio has been folded lengthwise into two halves, after the primary inscriptions. The verso bears a secondary inscription that fits this fold. It contains two columns of Hebrew poetry.
The right column is filled by a poem in honor of a prince named Joshua, that starts מה תצרי מה תרחבי. Published from this source by Israel Davidson: Ginze Shekhṭer. New York : Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1928-1929, v. 3, p. 307-308.
The left column, ll. 1-5 is a short poem that starts צורי חסדיך, published, from a different source, by S. Wertheimer: Sefer Zikhron le-rishonim ṿele-aḥaronim / Solomon Aaron Werthaimer. Yerushalayim : Bi-defus ha-Aḥim Solomon, 1909, part 3, p. 6a.
Followed by Judah ha-Levi's יפה נוף (in H. Brody's: Diṿan / Yehudah ha-Leṿi (Judah, ha-Levi) ; Heinrich Brody [ed.] Berlin : Ḥevrat Meḳits nirdamim, 1910-, v. 2, p. 167 and also in Harkavy's edition: Yehudah ha-Leṿi / Albert Harakvy [ed.]. Ṿarsha : Aḥiasaf, 1893-1895, v. 1, p. 7).
Under the heading אחר מאברם בן אזרא ז"ל, Abraham ibn Ezra's לאלהים כלתה נפשי (in the Diwan of Abraham Ibn Ezra: Diṿan le-Rabi Avraham ben Ezra / Aḳiva ben Yosef Eger [ed.]. Berlin, 1886, p. 187).
Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
Cited in:
Halper, no. 159
IMHM, no. F38399
Freiman and Goitein, p. 202 no. 118.
Publications about:
The inquiry deals with the debt of an unnamed widow. Published from this source in the edition edited by Goitein and Freimann: Teshuvot / Avraham ben ha-Rambam ; Abraham Freimann and S.D. Goitein [editors]. Jersualem : Meḳitse nirdamin, 1937, p 202-204, item no. 118.
Verso, right column: poem in honor of a prince named Joshua, that starts מה תצרי מה תרחבי. Published from this source by Israel Davidson: Ginze Shekhṭer. New York : Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1928-1929, v. 3, p. 307-308.
Contains:
Selected poems by Yehudah ha-Leṿi and Avraham ben Meïr aben Ezra.
Poem in honor of a prince named Joshua.
OCLC:
1366218382

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