[Liturgical poems, probably for funeral services] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Dirges; Kinot; Ben Adam al teʾashem; Heʾasfu anshe emet; Poetic eulogy; Aftarot; Tsiduk ha-din

Contributor:

Yeshuʻah ben Yosef, ha-Kohen, active 11th century (attributed name)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1100s

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Jewish funeral rites and ceremonies; Jewish mourning customs; Dirges; Eulogies; Jewish ethics -- Early works to 1800; Jewish ethics

Resource Type:

Text

Physical Description:

2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): complete, consecutive; folded in reverse

Rights:

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

Notes:

Verse endings are signified by a punctus, strophe endings by a sof pasuḳ and paragraph break.; Fol. 1 recto and the upper third of the verso: under the heading אחרת לחכם a dirge of six strophes, four rhymed verses each (except for the final strophe which has 6). Apparently not intended for any specific sage.; Starts: האספו אנשי אמת. This dirge appears in Cambridge TS K25.15 where it is attributed (in the heading) toישועה הכהן בן יוסף הדיין. This poem was published by Sarah Cohen, Tarbits v. 69 (2000, p.449-460) on p. 460, from a different fragment: JTSA ENA 2165.; The remainder of the fragment, under the heading אחרת, contains the first eight strophes of a Eulogy poem בן אדם אל, probably intended for a Rosh Yeshivah in Erets Israel.; Four rhyming verses each, the first starts בן אדם followed by the acrostic א-ת at the head of each verse (the fragment reaches verse ס).; Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 219

Collection:

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