[Collection of secular poetry] : manuscript

Name:

Ibn Gabirol, active 11th century

Date:

1100s

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Hebrew poetry, Medieval

Resource Type:

Text

Physical Description:

1 folio : loss in center, faded

Rights:

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

Notes:

Written in the same format as ENA 326, in which each verse starts a new line, and the remainder of the verse in the second line is centered; exceeding words aligned above the line; sporadic vocalization.; The folio contains verses 6-12 (=end) of a Love Song that starts עזבתני ועלה לשחקים, (Davidson, Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew poetry, 303ע), in the anthology of Ibn Gabirol's secular poems published by D. Yarden: Shire ha-ḥol / Dov Yarden [ed.]. Jerusalem, 1975, p. 62-63.; The Judeo-Arabic heading that attributes the following poem to Ibn Gabirol on the death of his father, על השחקים נפשך רוכבת (Davidson, TMHP 491ע), in Yarden, ibid. pp. 286-287. Here it starts עלי שחקים. The folio ends after 11 (out of 12) verses.; The sequence of these two poems is also found in Cambridge TS 16.381 and in New York JTSA ENA 326, 12-13.; Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, RAR MS

Collection:

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