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[Ethical will] : manuscript.
Library at the Katz Center - Genizah Fragments Halper 119
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Wills, Ethical.
- Charity--Early works to 1800.
- Jewish ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Jewish ethics.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Charity.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
- Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
- Adler.
- Physical Description:
- 2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v):) : complete, attached (forming outer sheet of fascicle [Halper]); damage
- Paper 20.4 X 14.3 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 25-26.
- Contained In:
- Cairo Genizah Collection
- Other Title:
- Tsaṿaʾah
- Place of Publication:
- [Byzantium], [publisher not identified], [13th century-14th century?]
- Language Note:
- Hebrew. Hebrew
- Notes:
- Text breaks denoted by a punctus, plus 2-5 spaces.
- The fragment contains an essay on the merits of charity. The author often opens a paragraph with the address: בניי. The author relies heavily on Talmudic and Midrashic texts, introduced as א[מרו] חז"ל, or נמצא באגדה.
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Cited in:
- Halper, no. 119
- IMHM, no. F38399
- OCLC:
- 1366219002
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