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[Azharah] : manuscript

Metadata

DS ID:

DS25738

Shelfmark:

Halper 257

Title:

Azharah

Hebrew text

Author:

Ibn Gabirol, active 11th century

Solomon ibn Gabirol WIKIDATA

Place:

Orient

Date:

12th century-14th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

nearly complete; loss in upper interior corner; stained

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : nearly complete; loss in upper interior corner; stained

Note:

Strophe endings (every second verse, rhymed ים-) denoted by a gershayim in left margin.
One correction is written and vocalized in the margin of recto.
A fragment of Ibn Gabirol's Azharah בצל שדי אחסה (TMHP ב1278) on the negative commandments, parallel to, in the published edition (D. Yarden, Shire ha-ḳodesh le-Rabi Shemuʹel Ibn Gabirol / Dov Yarden [ed.]. Jerusalem, 1971-1973, p. 432-435, ll. 219-262),
Compared to the common edition, here the order of some strophes is inverted (ll. 219-222; 239-240).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Texts

Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew

Shavuot--Liturgy

Judaism--Liturgy

Piyutim

Azharot

Commandments, Six hundred and thirteen

Judaism--Liturgy--Texts

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940419363503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3nz81812/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania