[Megilat ha-Śaṭan ha-yaduʹa] : manuscript

Name:

Judah, ha-Levi, active 12th century

Timespan:

Süleyman I, 1520-1566

Date:

1500s

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:

History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

2 fols. : loss at upper internal corner; folio 1 is blank

Geographic Subject:

Turkey -- History -- Süleyman I, 1520-1566; Turkey

Rights:

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

Notes:

The three lines of the title are in large, hollow letters filled in different colors; each verse starts a new line; verse endings denoted by inverted triangular dots.; The first folio of a historical document of the "Megillah" type, in which a miraculous recent event is retold in the style of Esther. Often the "Megillah" is read on the date commemorating the event, stylized as a local "Purim". This one provides a Judeo-Arabic translation after each verse.; Entitled מגלת השטן הידוע שמרד \ במלך סולימאן, this "Megillah" retells the events of the rebellion of Ahmad Pasha (here: Basha) against Suleiman I of Turkey in 1524, and its effects on the Jews of Cairo.; A complete copy of this "Megillah", in which the Arabic translation appears in a parallel column, is found in London, British Library Or. 7768 (Margoliouth no. 1170).; Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 328

Collection:

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