[Dirges, part of a funeral service] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Kinot; Poetic eulogies; Aftarot; Tsiduḳ ha-din

Name:

Yehudah, ha-Kohen, Rosh ha-seder, active 11th century; Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 220

Date:

1100s

Language:

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Amram.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Jewish mourning customs; Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts; Judaism -- Liturgy; Dirges; Eulogies; Jewish funeral rites and ceremonies

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : nearly complete; lower half of verso is blank

Rights:

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

Notes:

Recto contains a dirge under the heading צידוק הדין. It is divided into four paragraphs, the first one starts איכה ארוכה ממלוכה. The recurrent theme is "night"; erasures and addenda in the margins.; This may be a copy.; Verso contains another dirge by Judah ha-Kohen, under the headingצדוק הדין לרבי יהודה הכהן הרב הגדול ז״ל. A complete alphabetic acrostic, that starts אתן צדק לפועל כל יצור.; Four rhyming verses per strophe, the last of which is biblical, and shorter than the rest.; Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 220