[Megilat ha-Śaṭan ha-yaduʹa] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Judah, ha-Levi, active 12th century.

Contributor:

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

Language:

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Turkey--History--Süleyman I, 1520-1566.

Turkey.

History.

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. : loss at upper internal corner; folio 1 is blank

Paper 20.3 X 14.6 cm material applied: black and colored inks ruling method: left rule justified by stretching last character columns: 1 lines: 16.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [16th century?]

Language Note:

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

The three lines of the title are in large, hollow letters filled in different colors; each verse starts a new line; verse endings denoted by inverted triangular dots.

The first folio of a historical document of the "Megillah" type, in which a miraculous recent event is retold in the style of Esther. Often the "Megillah" is read on the date commemorating the event, stylized as a local "Purim". This one provides a Judeo-Arabic translation after each verse.

Entitled מגלת השטן הידוע שמרד \ במלך סולימאן, this "Megillah" retells the events of the rebellion of Ahmad Pasha (here: Basha) against Suleiman I of Turkey in 1524, and its effects on the Jews of Cairo.

A complete copy of this "Megillah", in which the Arabic translation appears in a parallel column, is found in London, British Library Or. 7768 (Margoliouth no. 1170).

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 328

IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

1366218779