Fragment of a Sephardic Siddur, 1200s?
קטע מסדור ספרדית

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

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

Standardized Title:

Siddur (Sephardic). Selections.

סדור (ספרדי). קטעים.

תנ"ך. שמות ט"ו:א-י"ח. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92031244

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews.

History.

Manuscript fragments.

Middle East.

Manuscript fragments--Specimens.

Jews--Middle East--13th century--History--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Specimens.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

fragments (object portions)

Prayers.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly held in the Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College).

Transferred to the Cairo Genizah Collection (Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania).

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection.

Place of Publication:

1200s?

המאה ה-13?.

Language Note:

In Hebrew; single verse in Aramaic Targum (verso).

Summary:

Fragment of a Sephardic Siddur, surviving only at the text of Az yashir (Song of the Sea); beginning with Exodus XV:9, אוֹיֵב אֶרְדֹּף אַשִּׂיג (recto), completing with XV:21, וַתַּעַן לָהֶם (verso; some text loss on final verse). The indication that it is a Siddur is due to the usage of the Sephardic custom to repeat the final verse of every paragraph of the Pesuḳe De-zimrah (Abudarham, Shaḥarit/Pesuḳe De-zimrah "ונוהגין בספרד"), and this manuscript fragment is an early example of this custom - repeating the final verso of the Song in Targum (avoiding repeating the Hebrew; Exodus XV:18). Written in (at least) 14 lines, in the "bricklayered" format (אריח על גבי לבנה, as the Song of the Sea appears in a Torah scroll; lower lines mostly torn); one word in margin (verso). Written in a 13th century cursive script (likely originating in the Middle East).

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS: RAR MS 82.313.1.3.

Contains:

Bible. Exodus, XV, 1-18

תנ"ך. שמות ט"ו:א-י"ח.

OCLC:

1305062886