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[Ethical poem, Ashre adam, matsa ḥokhmah] : manuscript

Metadata

DS ID:

DS26075

Shelfmark:

Halper 312

Title:

Ethical poem, Ashre adam, matsa ḥokhmah

Poetry

Author:

Elhanan ben Shemariah, -1026

Elhanan ben Shemariah WIKIDATA

Place:

Orient

Date:

11th century-12th century?

tenth century (dates CE) AAT

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

complete, folded widthwise at center

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : complete, folded widthwise at center

Note:

Recto had 39 lines (Halper); the poem ends in the middle of the verso, the remainder is blank. Each verse starts a new line, verse endings are signified by a period; some words vocalized.
A complete copy of Elḥanan ben Shemaryahu's Ethical poem אשרי אדם מצא חכמה (Davidson, Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew poetry, v.1 n. 8358). Sixty verses that rhyme רים-. The acrostic signature of the first fifteen verses reads אלחנן בירבי שמריה.
On the author, see E. Bareqet, Shafrir Mitsraim, 1995, p. 153-164 (Fustat on the Nile, Leiden, 1999, p. 220).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Adler.

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940419923503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p32z1376x/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania