Judeo-Arabic commentary to Exodus XXV, between 1300-1399; פירוש על שמות כ"ה ביהודית-ערבית,בין 1300-1399

Name:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)

Timespan:

14th century

Date:

1300

Description:

Fragment of a commentary on the Pentateuch in Judeo-Arabic, surviving at the later portions of Exodus XXV (discussion of the creation of the Ark of the Convenant on recto, and the creation of the Menorah on verso). Written in an eastern semicursive script; various sentence-style punctuations (colons, dashes, and overlines on abbreviations) throughout; 19 long lines (surviving).

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly held in the Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College).; Transferred to the Cairo Genizah Collection (Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania).

Subject:

Jews; History; Manuscript fragments; Ark of the Covenant; Menorah; Tabernacle; Manuscript fragments -- Specimens; Jews -- Middle East -- 14th century -- History -- Sources

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Sources; Specimens; Commentaries; Manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic; Fragments (object portions); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper

Geographic Subject:

Middle East

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

In Judeo-Arabic.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, a CAJS: RAR MS 82.313.1.7a

Collection:

Cairo Genizah Collection