[Panegyric poem in honor of Yeḥiyah ben Avraham] : manuscript

Date:

1000s

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:

Yeḥiyah ben Avraham Poetry; Laudatory poetry, Hebrew

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

poems; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 folio : losses along lower edge; widthwise mail format folds; faded; draft(?), scribblings, pen tests on verso

Rights:

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

Notes:

In Wafir meter; under the heading, stating that the poem is dedicated to the honorable יחיה בר אברהם שר בית ישראל ,twenty-seven monorhymed lines starting חכם סופרים ושורש החסידים. This may be the philanthropist mentioned in a document published by Jacob Mann: The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine under the Fatimid caliphs. London : Oxford Univ. Press, v. 2, p. 319. On the verso is another copy of the first lines of the poem, apparently its draft. Much of the blank space of the verso is covered with jottings and writing exercises in different hands.; Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 318

Collection:

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