[Ethical poem, Ashre adam, matsa ḥokhmah] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Ashre adam, matsʾa ḥokhmah

Name:

Elhanan ben Shemariah, -1026

Date:

0900s

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : complete, folded widthwise at center

Rights:

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

Notes:

Recto had 39 lines (Halper); the poem ends in the middle of the verso, the remainder is blank. Each verse starts a new line, verse endings are signified by a period; some words vocalized.; A complete copy of Elḥanan ben Shemaryahu's Ethical poem אשרי אדם מצא חכמה (Davidson, Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew poetry, v.1 n. 8358). Sixty verses that rhyme רים-. The acrostic signature of the first fifteen verses reads אלחנן בירבי שמריה.; On the author, see E. Bareqet, Shafrir Mitsraim, 1995, p. 153-164 (Fustat on the Nile, Leiden, 1999, p. 220).; Hebrew. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 312

Collection:

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