[Laudatory poem for Śimḥah and Netanʹel, sons of Mesabar] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeshuʹah ben Dunash ben Mosheh, 12th century.

Contributor:

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

Language:

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Simḥah ben Mesabar.

Laudatory poetry, Hebrew.

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 : torn, loss in upper edge; faded; verso is blank

Paper 20 X 18.5 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 14 (recto).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

Each strophe begins a new line; verse endings denoted by a sof pasuḳ, strophe endings by a circle and sof pasuḳ.

Hemistychs in Wafir meter with final rhyme in תם-.

The fragment, sporadically vocalized, includes the last 12 strophes of a laudatory poem for two brothers, Śimḥah and Netanʹel, sons of Mesabar (as mentioned in the second to last verse), who have made a substantial donation (as mentioned in the fourth verse from the end). Ends מוסבר צור והאחים שלשתם.

Simḥah ben Musaffar (מסאפר) is signed on a legal document dated 1029, in Oxford Bodleian Heb. a.3 (Cowely 2873) fol. 37.

At the end of the poem, in smaller writing, there appear two inscriptions, next to each other, both sharing two lines. The first, in semi-square, reads:ר׳ נת[נאל] ור׳ שמחה / ומ׳ יצחק ז״ל. The second, in semi-cursive, reads: מן בעץׄ מא קאל ישועה בן דנש בן משה אב בית דין פי אלאכ׳וא / אל [.... ..ל.....]מא ואדאם חראסתהמא. Halper interprets אלאכ׳וא as [אלאכוא[ן.

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 325

IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

1366217797