[Collected liturgical poems for mourners] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Dirges; Ḳinot; Afṭarot; Tsiduḳ ha-din

Name:

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

Date:

1100s

Language:

Hebrew

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 religious poetry, Hebrew; Jewish mourning customs; Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts; Judaism -- Liturgy; Dirges; Piyutim

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

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

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 277

Collection:

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