[Laudatory poem for Śimḥah and Netanʹel, sons of Mesabar] : manuscript

Name:

Yeshuʹah ben Dunash ben Mosheh, 12th century

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:

Simḥah ben Mesabar; Laudatory poetry, Hebrew

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : torn, loss in upper edge; faded; verso is blank

Rights:

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

Notes:

Each strophe begins a new line; verse endings denoted by a sof pasuḳ, strophe endings by a circle and sof pasuḳ.; Hemistychs in Wafir meter with final rhyme in תם-.; The fragment, sporadically vocalized, includes the last 12 strophes of a laudatory poem for two brothers, Śimḥah and Netanʹel, sons of Mesabar (as mentioned in the second to last verse), who have made a substantial donation (as mentioned in the fourth verse from the end). Ends מוסבר צור והאחים שלשתם.; Simḥah ben Musaffar (מסאפר) is signed on a legal document dated 1029, in Oxford Bodleian Heb. a.3 (Cowely 2873) fol. 37.; At the end of the poem, in smaller writing, there appear two inscriptions, next to each other, both sharing two lines. The first, in semi-square, reads:ר׳ נת[נאל] ור׳ שמחה / ומ׳ יצחק ז״ל. The second, in semi-cursive, reads: מן בעץׄ מא קאל ישועה בן דנש בן משה אב בית דין פי אלאכ׳וא / אל [.... ..ל.....]מא ואדאם חראסתהמא. Halper interprets אלאכ׳וא as [אלאכוא[ן.; Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 325

Collection:

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