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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25895

Shelfmark:

Halper 222

Title:

Tsiduḳ ha-din

Hebrew text

Place:

Orient

Date:

14th century-16th century?

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew, and Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

folded widthwise; 1v left blank (according to Halper, "2 paper leaves" : "originally it seems to have been one sheet, upon one side of which (not folded) was a letter in Arabic character, the lines being written lengthwise ... Some time later the letter was folded int two, and upon 1a was copied part of the burial service [...] in a Yemenite square hand")

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : folded widthwise; 1v left blank (according to Halper, "2 paper leaves" : "originally it seems to have been one sheet, upon one side of which (not folded) was a letter in Arabic character, the lines being written lengthwise ... Some time later the letter was folded int two, and upon 1a was copied part of the burial service [...] in a Yemenite square hand")

Note:

In the left side of the fold on the verso, is a secondary inscription, written in the opposite direction, a Tsiduk ha-din, comprised of 15 biblical verses and phrases.
The verso is a 10 line letter in Arabic characters, the verso bears the stamp of this letter.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Texts

Jewish mourning customs

Judaism--Liturgy

Jewish funeral rites and ceremonies

Dirges

Judaism--Liturgy--Texts

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940419033503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania