[Ethical poem, Ashre adam, matsa ḥokhmah] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elhanan ben Shemariah, -1026.

Contributor:

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

Language:

Hebrew

Penn Provenance:

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

Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).

Adler.

Physical Description:

1 folio : complete, folded widthwise at center

Parchment 29.4 X 11.4 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: left rule is justified by stretching [r] of rhyme columns: 1 lines: [39] (recto); 21 (verso).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Ashre adam, matsʾa ḥokhmah

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [11th century-12th century?]

Language Note:

Hebrew. Hebrew

Notes:

Recto had 39 lines (Halper); the poem ends in the middle of the verso, the remainder is blank. Each verse starts a new line, verse endings are signified by a period; some words vocalized.

A complete copy of Elḥanan ben Shemaryahu's Ethical poem אשרי אדם מצא חכמה (Davidson, Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew poetry, v.1 n. 8358). Sixty verses that rhyme רים-. The acrostic signature of the first fifteen verses reads אלחנן בירבי שמריה.

On the author, see E. Bareqet, Shafrir Mitsraim, 1995, p. 153-164 (Fustat on the Nile, Leiden, 1999, p. 220).

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 312

IMHM, no. F38400

Publications about:

Published from this source, with introduction and annotation by I. Davidson, Jewish Quarterly Review, v. N.S 4 (1913/1914) pp. 53-60; Abramson: Ba-merkazim uva-tefutsot bi-teḳufat ha-Geʾonim / Shraga Abramson. Yerushalayim : Mosad ha-rav Ḳuḳ, 1965, p. 137-140.

OCLC:

1371176857