[Collected poems] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibn Ezra, Isaac, active 12th century.

Contributor:

Judah, ha-Levi, active 12th century.

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

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

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): non-consecutive (Halper: outer sheet of fascicle); losses

Paper 19.7 X 14 cm material applied: ruling method: columns: lines: 14-16.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Shirim

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

Each verse begins a new line; verses divided into hemistichs by a space, but no effort is made to unify the length of the halves into two consistent columns; sporadically vocalized.

Fol. 1r 1: A. The last eleven verses of́ העודף מחזיק בתומתך by Isaac ben Ezra, in Kamil meter. Published by M. Schmelzer: Shirim / Yitsḥaḳ ben Avraham ibn ʹEzra ; Menachem Schmelzer [ed.]. New York : JTS, 1980, no. 35.

Fol. 1r 13: B. In Wafir meter; the common Judeo-Arabic heading حرا ايضاَ (sic! in Arabic characters) indicating that the next poem was composed by the same poet as the previous: קרבי מפני דתך יחילון, six verses (Schmelzer, ibid. no. 19).

Fol. 1v 6: C. under similar heading, the short poem למתי הזמן יטרח ואשא. (Schmelzer, ibid. p. 25, no. 20).

Fol. 1v 9-16: D. copied by a different, smaller hand. Under the heading יהודה הלוי, three two-verse riddles by Judah ha-Levi, each with a different heading (in Hebrew characters), which is the definition alluded to in the riddle.

Fol. 1v 9: 1. Heading פי סחאבה מטר / ומה בוכה בלי עין (Davidson, Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts 342ו; in the Diṿan published by Brody, Berlin, 1910, vol. II, p. 209).

Fol. 1v 12: 2. פי אלמראה / כלי מכיל לאין תכלית (TMHP 416כ; Brody ibid. 195).

Fol. 1v 15: 3. פי אלדיך / ומה מלך במגבעת אדומה (TMHP 360ו; Brody ibid. 202).

Fol. 2r-v: E. Isaac ben Ezra's יליד ימים אשר שניו חרוצות, twenty-eight verses, rhymed צות- (Schmelzer, ibid. pp. 17-19 no. 8).

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 315

IMHM, no. F38400

Contains:

Poetic riddles.

OCLC:

1366218903