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[Collected liturgical poems for mourners] : manuscript

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3319sm7n
Title: [Collected liturgical poems for mourners] : manuscript
Alt Title: Dirges, Ḳinot, Afṭarot, Tsiduḳ ha-din
Name: Ibn Avitor, Joseph ben Isaac ben Shtnash, active 10th century-11th century
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Date: 11XX
Collection: Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: books
Extent: 2 fols. : non-consecutive; losses, lacking [9] lines from upper edge
Language: Hebrew
Note: Verse endings denoted by a punctus, strophe endings by a semi-alef., Three poems of the Tsiduḳ ha-din type, sporadically vocalized, probably all are by Joseph ben Abitur., A. (fol. 1) 22 strophes (ז-ר), four verses each, the last of which is from the biblical theme, Ecclesiastes XII 1-7. The refrain starts with סוף; listed among Tsiduḳe ha-din of Abitur, by E. Fleischer, (Yetsirato shel Yosef ben Abitur / Ezra Fleischer (Doctoral dissertation). Jerusalem : Hebrew University, 1968, p. 546) with a parallel ms. source, Cambridge TS K8.17, which reached the end of the poem סוער לרגעים וישכח רבה., B. (fol. 2) another poem of this type, in same scheme. The acrostic signature in the final two strophes reads יושף., C. (fol. 2v) On line 22, first line of a third poem of this type, אנוש אני פתע ישבר., Hebrew. Hebrew
Relation: Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3319sm7n
Subject: Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew, Jewish mourning customs, Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts, Judaism -- Liturgy, Dirges, Piyutim
Physical Location: Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 277
Provenance: Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)., Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library)., Amram.
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9940419573503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3319sm7n/manifest

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DS ID:

DS26113

Shelfmark:

Halper 277

Title:

Collected liturgical poems for mourners

Liturgical poems

Author:

Ibn Avitor, Joseph ben Isaac ben Shtnash, active 10th century-11th century

Joseph ibn Abitur Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Place:

Orient

Date:

12th century-13th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

Hebrew

WIKIDATA

Material:

non-consecutive; losses, lacking [9] lines from upper edge

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 fols. : non-consecutive; losses, lacking [9] lines from upper edge

Note:

Verse endings denoted by a punctus, strophe endings by a semi-alef.
Three poems of the Tsiduḳ ha-din type, sporadically vocalized, probably all are by Joseph ben Abitur.
A. (fol. 1) 22 strophes (ז-ר), four verses each, the last of which is from the biblical theme, Ecclesiastes XII 1-7. The refrain starts with סוף; listed among Tsiduḳe ha-din of Abitur, by E. Fleischer, (Yetsirato shel Yosef ben Abitur / Ezra Fleischer (Doctoral dissertation). Jerusalem : Hebrew University, 1968, p. 546) with a parallel ms. source, Cambridge TS K8.17, which reached the end of...
B. (fol. 2) another poem of this type, in same scheme. The acrostic signature in the final two strophes reads יושף.
C. (fol. 2v) On line 22, first line of a third poem of this type, אנוש אני פתע ישבר.
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

Jewish mourning customs

Judaism--Liturgy

Piyutim

Dirges

Judaism--Liturgy--Texts

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940419573503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3319sm7n/manifest