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[Fragment from a supplicatory prayer] : manuscript.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Prayer--Judaism.
- Prayer.
- Judaism--Liturgy--Texts.
- Judaism.
- Judaism--Liturgy.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- 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 : slightly damaged, loss in interior edge
- Paper 13.8 X 8.8 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 10.
- Contained In:
- Cairo Genizah Collection
- Other Title:
- Baḳashah fragment
- Place of Publication:
- [Orient], [publisher not identified], [12th century-13th century?]
- Language Note:
- Hebrew. Hebrew
- Notes:
- Text breaks denoted by three spaces.
- The fragment appears to be from a prayer of the Baḳashah type, in which emphasis is put on the limitations and timeliness of man contrasted to the infinity of God. Comparable in content to Saadia's second Baḳashah.
- Biblical phrases are used: Psalms CXLIV 4 and XXV 6, Job XIV 1.
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Cited in:
- Halper, no. 201
- IMHM, no. F38399
- OCLC:
- 249589921
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