[Liturgical poems for mourners] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yoshayah ben Neḥemyah, ha-Ḥazan

Contributor:

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

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jewish mourning customs.

Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew.

Dirges.

Piyutim.

Penn Provenance:

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

Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).

Amram.

Physical Description:

2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): consecutive; losses along upper and exterior edges

Paper 13.7 X 8.8 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: "poorly ruled" columns: 1 lines: 12-14.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Dirges

Ḳinot

Afṭarot

Tsiduḳ ha-din

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [11th century?]

Language Note:

Hebrew. Hebrew

Notes:

Only fol. 1r is fully vocalized.

The first segment of the fragment is a Tsiduk ha-din, apparently unrhymed. The beginning is missing. Ends כי מעשה ידיו כולם. The second, and final segment starts on the verso of fol. 1 l. 3 אל ל]בו יתן החי ויפקח עיין], constructed of four-verse strophes.

The content ends towards the bottom of fol. 2 verso, followed by a colophon, marked by a graphic border. It readsחזק לרב יאשיה החזן\ בירבי נחמיה ראש\ הפרק תנצב"ה, which identifies the author of the dirges.

The exact same colophon is found on a fragment of liturgical pieces in British Library Or. 5557A fols. 47-58. This Josiah's ḳetubah written to Kharima bat Isaac, is in Oxford Bodleian Heb. a. 2 fol. 1 (Cowely 2805, 1) dated 1055.

His father the Rosh Perek of Fustat is the recipient of a responsum of R Ḥai Gaon in Cambridge NS 324.112 Mosseri VII 157, dated April 1037 (Gil, Be-Malkhut Ishmael, 1997, vol. II no. 40), in which our author is blessed by the Gaon (l. 14).

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 274

IMHM, no. F38399

Contains:

Zidduk ha-din.

OCLC:

1366217997