[Kifāyat al-ʻābidīn. Ḥeleḳ 2, kerekh 4, pereḳ 19-20] : manuscript.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon, 1186-1237.

Contributor:

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

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

• Jewish ethics--Early works to 1800.
• Jewish ethics.
• Philospopy, Jewish--Early works to 1800.
• Philosophy, Medieval.

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 : damaged, loss in lower interior corner, stained, faded
• Paper 22.2 X 16.8 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 22 (recto), 20 (verso).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

• Sefer ha-Maspiḳ le-ʻovde Adonai, Ḥeleḳ 2, kerekh 4, pereḳ 19-20
• Sefer ha-Maspiḳ le-ʻovde ha-Shem, Ḥeleḳ 2, kerekh 4, pereḳ 19-20
• Maspiḳ le-ʻovde Adonai, Ḥeleḳ 2, kerekh 4, pereḳ 19-20
• Maspiḳ le-ʻovde ha-Shem, Ḥeleḳ 2, kerekh 4, pereḳ 19-20
• [Ethical essay].

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

• Incipits in enlarged, square characters above a space.
• From the ethical section (Part II section 4) of this epic work, the fragment contains the latter half of chapter 19 "פי אלקנעה" (on Contentedness) and the beginning of chapter 20 "פי אלזהר" (on Abstinence). Parallel to, in the published edition: Samuel Rosenblatt, The highways to perfection of Abraham Maimonides., vol. II, Baltimore 1938) p. 220 l. 15 - (the end of the legible inscription) p. 224 l. 11.
• A fragment of an ethical essay in Judeo-Arabic. In this passage, biblical verses are cited, about bringing gifts to the prophets (Sam. I I X 7-8; Kings I XIV 3).
• Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

• Halper, no. 433
• IMHM, no. F38400

Contains:

• Bible. Samuel, 1st, IX, 7-8. Judeo-Arabic. 1100.
• Bible. Kings, 1st, XIV, 3. Judeo-Arabic. 1100.

OCLC:

1366218023