[Panegyric poem in honor of an unspecified bridegroom] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Epithalamium for bridegroom

Date:

1000s

Language:

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:

Sheʼerit, ha-Ḥazzan, active 12th century; Judaism -- Functionaries; Letters; Legal documents; Weddings -- Poetry; Weddings; Laudatory poetry, Hebrew; Geonic literature

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poetry

Physical Description:

1 folio : superscription partially torn, losses; faded; widthwise, mail format folded; verso in different hand

Rights:

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

Notes:

Verse endings denoted by a punctus.; 1r, probably the primary inscription, a document in Judeo-Arabic preventing a blind ḥazan named Sheʻerit ben Japheth from leading the services. A court appointment of a representative of an orphan, whose deceased father bears this same name, is found in Cambridge TS 10 J7 fol. 17 (recorded by S. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, vol. III pp. 295-296). This Sheʻerit died in Fustat. See also שארית החזן פאר החזנים mentioned in Cambridge 13 J19 fol. 14; 17 lines with large spaces between them, as is common among official letters of the Gaonate (e.g. responsum of R. Ḥai Gaon in Cambridge NS 324.112/Mosseri VII 157, dated April 1037).; 1v contains a poem, in Wafir meter, in honor of an unspecified bridegroom (represented in the formulary format: [פל[וני. Starts אשורר שיר לציר חוקר. Forty verses, monorhymed ים-. This appears to be a secondary inscription on the blank (or erased) side of the document on side 1.; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 319

Collection:

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