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[Azharah] : manuscript

Metadata

DS ID:

DS26108

Shelfmark:

Halper 256

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:

non-consecutive, complete; lacuna between Halper 255 and 256

Physical Description:

Extent: 3 fols. (Halper 255, 1 folio; Halper 256, 2 fols.) : non-consecutive, complete; lacuna between Halper 255 and 256

Note:

Strophe endings (every second verse, rhymed ים-) denoted by a sof pasuḳ; catchword at end (bottom left verso?) of each fol.
No. 255 recto contains the last 16 verses of Ibn Gabirol's Azharah שמור לבי (Davidson, Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew poetry. New York : JTS, 1924, 1482ש) on the positive commandments, parallel to, in the published edition D. Yarden: Shire ha-ḳodesh le-Rabi Shemuʹel Ibn Gabirol / Dov Yarden [ed.]. Jerusalem, 1971-1973, p. 412-413, ll. 167-182.
255 verso: under the heading מצות לא תעשה, the beginning of Ibn Gabirol's Azharah בצל שדי אחסה (TMHP 1278ב) on the negative commandments, ibid, pp. 414-415, ll. 1-17. No. 256 contains ibid pp. 418-424 ll. 55-130.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Lederer.
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/9940419353503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3sq8r25t/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania