[Judeo-Arabic treatise on prayer] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Israel ben Samuel, ha-Kohen, active 11th century, attributed name.

Abraham ben Nathan, patron.

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Language:

Aramaic

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Mishnah. Berakhot IV, 1-3.

Mishnah.

Talmud. Berakhot IV, 22b.

Talmud.

Talmud. Berakhot IV, 31a.

Prayer--Judaism--Early works to 1800.

Prayer.

Prayer--Judaism.

Jewish law.

Geonic literature.

Judaism--Liturgy--Early works to 1800.

Judaism.

Judaism--Liturgy.

Penn Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).

Amram.

Physical Description:

1 folio : nearly-complete

Parchment 21.6 X 15.7 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 22.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [12th century-13th century?]

Language Note:

Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic. Hebrew

Notes:

Text breaks are denoted by 2-3 spaces; fascicle number "ב" on recto.

A fol. from a treatise on prayer including much Talmudic citation, dealing with the general principles behind regulated daily prayer (perhaps an introduction), and the Talmudic sources of the three daily prayers, Mishnah Berakhot IV 1,3, Talmud ibid. 31a, 22b.

Among the known Gaonic monographs, the content here is most fitting to Samuel ben Ḥofni Gaon's Kitab al-ʹimma, a title found in a booklist published by Schechter: Saadyana / S. Schechter [ed.]. Cambridge : Deighton and Bell, 1903, p. 54.

A non-consecutive bifolium including the first fol. of this same ms, presumably the exterior sheet of the fascicle adjacently preceding this fol., is Cambridge TS 10 H11.1 attributing the work to Israel b. Samuel (ben Ḥofni) ha-Kohen, composed at the request of Abraham b. Nathan (Ibn ʹAta) Nagid of Kairouan. It is mentioned there that the composition consists of 30 chapters. See: Jacob Mann, "The Last Geonim of Sura", Jewish Quarterly Review. N.S. 11 (1921), p. 415-416. The title of the book is in the missing corner of the Cambridge bifolio. Extant is only vh. Mann (ibid) suggests the title וג׳וב אלצ]וה]. British Library Or. 5563A fol. 6 is another fragment from the same ms.

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 168

IMHM, no. F38399

OCLC:

1366218590