[Judeo-Arabic treatise on prayer] : manuscript

Contributor:

Israel ben Samuel, ha-Kohen, active 11th century (attributed name); Abraham ben Nathan (patron)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1100s

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:

Prayer -- Judaism -- Early works to 1800; Prayer -- Judaism; Jewish law; Geonic literature; Judaism -- Liturgy -- Early works to 1800; Judaism -- Liturgy

Resource Type:

Text

Physical Description:

1 folio : nearly-complete

Rights:

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

Notes:

Text breaks are denoted by 2-3 spaces; fascicle number "ב" on recto.; A fol. from a treatise on prayer including much Talmudic citation, dealing with the general principles behind regulated daily prayer (perhaps an introduction), and the Talmudic sources of the three daily prayers, Mishnah Berakhot IV 1,3, Talmud ibid. 31a, 22b.; Among the known Gaonic monographs, the content here is most fitting to Samuel ben Ḥofni Gaon's Kitab al-ʹimma, a title found in a booklist published by Schechter: Saadyana / S. Schechter [ed.]. Cambridge : Deighton and Bell, 1903, p. 54.; Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 168

Collection:

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