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[From a Judeo-Arabic treatise on the meaning of dreams] : manuscript

Metadata

DS ID:

DS26165

Shelfmark:

Halper 148

Title:

From a Judeo-Arabic treatise on the meaning of dreams

Judeo-Arabic text

Place:

Oriental

Date:

12th century-13th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

fragment, containing complete length of page but lacking all of exterior and most of interior edges; erasure on verso

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : fragment, containing complete length of page but lacking all of exterior and most of interior edges; erasure on verso

Note:

Text breaks are denoted by a punctus.
Recto and first line of verso contain the latter part of a list of numbered chapters and their contents, and includes the descriptions of chapters 7-23.
The chapter headings list topics such as candles, wine, cheese, birds, marriage, prayer and women. The rest of the verso is from the preface to the monograph. The essay opens with a quotation form the Moslem classic on this topic by Ibn Sirin (Ben Sira).
The hand appears to be unprofessional, and the verso includes an erasure, which may indicate that this is an autograph or draft copy.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Early works

Dreams

Judeo-Arabic literature

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940418353503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3kp7v925/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania