[Judeo-Arabic essay on biblical homonyms] : manuscript

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

0900s

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:

Hebrew language -- Homonyms -- Early works to 1800; Hebrew language -- Roots -- Early works to 1800; Hebrew language -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800; Jewish ethics -- Early works to 1800; Jewish ethics; Hebrew language; Hebrew language -- Roots; Hebrew language -- Homonyms

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Dictionaries

Physical Description:

1 folio : complete; losses, hole in the center

Rights:

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

Notes:

Commentary on a piyyuṭ? Halper (p. 164): "The writer explains the force of thirteen difficulat and rare words which are employed in this piyyuṭ, instead of easier synonyms, for the sake of effect [...]"; text commences with a numbered list (8-13) of words, with definitions in Arabic, and Biblical sources that infer various usage of the given word. Perhaps a forerunner of the Maḥberet of Menaḥem ibn Saruḳ. It is unclear what is unique about these homonyms, they are not in alphabetic or textual order. The verso is probably from a different source, apparently an Ethical treatise citing rabbinic sources, in Arabic; sporadic vocalization.; Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 311

Collection:

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