[Panegyric poem in honor of Yeḥiyah ben Avraham] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

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

Language:

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Yeḥiyah ben Avraham--Poetry.

Yeḥiyah ben Avraham.

Laudatory poetry, Hebrew.

Genre:

Poetry.

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 : losses along lower edge; widthwise mail format folds; faded; draft(?), scribblings, pen tests on verso

Paper 58.5 X 18.4 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: left rule justified by stretching last character columns: 1 lines: 27 (recto).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

In Wafir meter; under the heading, stating that the poem is dedicated to the honorable יחיה בר אברהם שר בית ישראל ,twenty-seven monorhymed lines starting חכם סופרים ושורש החסידים. This may be the philanthropist mentioned in a document published by Jacob Mann: The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine under the Fatimid caliphs. London : Oxford Univ. Press, v. 2, p. 319. On the verso is another copy of the first lines of the poem, apparently its draft. Much of the blank space of the verso is covered with jottings and writing exercises in different hands.

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 318

IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

1366217776