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[Yotser for the Sabbath of the reading of Devarim (Ekhah) and Ṿa-etḥanan (Naḥanu)] : manuscript.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shemuʾel ben Hoshaʻna.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Yoẓerot.
- Piyutim.
- Judaism--Liturgy--Texts.
- Judaism--Liturgy.
- Sabbath--Liturgy--Texts.
- Sabbath--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:
- 4 fols. : consecutive, complete
- Paper 16.8 X 11.4 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: left margin justified by stretching last character columns:1 lines: 18-19.
- Contained In:
- Cairo Genizah Collection
- Other Title:
- Part of a collection of piyutim, probably for Shabat Naḥamu
- Place of Publication:
- [Orient], [publisher not identified], [11th century-13th century?]
- Language Note:
- Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew
- Notes:
- Verse endings denoted by a punctus, strophe endings by a sof pasuḳ.
- Yotser for the Sabbath Devarim (Deut. I); since this coincides with the week of the Ninth of Av, Lamentations is theme text.
- A. The fragment starts with the last verse of the Ofan אני הגבר אנף בי איום.
- B. The Meʾorah שמעת שאגת שמתני למשיסה. One strophe (ש).
- C. The Ahavah תשיב תגמול לצרבה בי. One strophe(ת).
- D. The Zulat איכה אופל גיה סוכו. Alphebetized verses (א-ת). The theme text is Lamentations IV.
- E. The Mi kamokha זכור שאון צרים. four four-verse strophes.
- F. (fol. 2) The Adonayi Malkenu בחורים בכל יום שואלים. Six verses rhymed בו-.
- G. The Geʾulah (Ṿe-ʹad matai) אתה המוני קדשך כמה תנשה. Seven verses rhymed - שה. Followed by Is. LXII 1.
- Under the heading ואתחנן נחמו. A yotser for the Sabbath of the reading of Va-etḥanan (Deut. III 23), of which the Haftarah is the first of the Weeks of Consolation Naḥamu (Is. XL)
- A. (fols. 2-3) The Yotser אישור תחנון חל רועה המוניי. The three-verse strophes are in alphabetic order, and catenated.
- B. (fol. 3) The Ofan נחמו אמונים בדת הגוים, on the theme of the five prophets. Six strophes of four alphabetized verses (א-נ), the refrain alternates בבנין בית אולמי \ חוזי נחמו נחמו. The alphabetic sequence continues (ס-ת) after והאופנים, with two more four-verse strophes.
- C.(fols. 3-4) The Zulat אלי מלכי ומנפישי; catenated strophes of four verses, the last of which is biblical.
- D. (fol. 4) The Mi kamokha שועה תחינת כל מתחנן. Monorhymed נו-.
- E. The Adonai malkeinu שיווענו והרבינו בקשות. Monorhymed לה-.
- F. The Geʹulah (Ṿe-ʹad matai) ינוחם עם בן מכונה.
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Cited in:
- Halper, no. 301
- IMHM, no. F38400
- OCLC:
- 1366218994
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