[Transcription of an Arabic epic poem] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Epic poetry, Arabic.

Penn Provenance:

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

Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).

Amram.

Physical Description:

1 fols. : complete

paper 15.3 X 9.4 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: left rule justified by graphic filler graphic fillers (puncti, semi-alefs) columns: 1 lines: 20.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

Catchword at end of verso. In the poetic section, each verse starts a new line. Verse endings denoted by a sof pasuḳ.

Halper: Seems to be part of a transcription, in Hebrew characters, of an Arabic book modelled after the Maḳamat of al-Ḥariri.

The folio opens with seven verses in wafir meter rhymed -אל (i.e., َال-). The next paragraph is in prose, from the words of the raṿi (narrator), as stated in the heading קאל אלראוי. The hero's name seems to be ʻAntar (no doubt after the name of the famous poet of the pre-Muhammedan era).

Halper: the orthography is sometimes vulgar. Thus מא תקר בהי עיני (verso l. 1).

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 330

IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

1366218708