[Philological essay] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Critique of the Maḥberet of Menaḥem ibn Saruḳ; Critique of Faṣiḥ lughah al-ʻIbrāniyīn by Saʻadia Gaon

Name:

Dunash ben Labrat, active 10th century

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:

Mĕnaḥem ben Saruq, approximately 910-approximately 970. Maḥberet; Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942. Faṣiḥ lughah al-ʻIbrānīyīn; Hebrew language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800; Hebrew language -- Grammar; Hebrew philology -- Early works to 1800; Hebrew language -- Roots -- Early works to 1800; Hebrew language -- Roots; Hebrew philology

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Dictionaries; books

Physical Description:

2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): non-consecutive; losses in upper interior corner; faded

Rights:

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

Notes:

Part of an essay in Judeo-Arabic on definitions of words. This appears to be a critique of a previous philological work, as is inferred (fol. 1 recto l. 9) וקד יגלט פי הדא אלפרק, in reference to the eighth chapter of the subject.; Other citations appear on this fol., of הדה אלי״ב, which may be referring to R. Saʻadia Gaon's Grammatical treatise of 12 chapters, Kutub al-Lugha, often referred to by this title (A. Dotan: Or rishon be-ḥokhmat ha-lashon / le-Rav Seàdyah Gaʾon; Aron Dotan [ed.]. Jeruslaem, 1997 p. 30, Henry Malter, Jewish Quarterly Review NS III (1912/1913), p. 494). Unlike ibn Ḥayuj, who recorded the biphonetic letters בג״ד כפ״ת, our author lists בג״ד כפר״ת as in Saʻadiah Gaon on Sefer ha-yetsirah.; Much of the content of fol. 2 is on the additional meaning of the word אור that is omitted in the Maḥberet of Menaḥem ibn Saruḳ. Talmudic, as well as Biblical proof texts are listed. The essay ends after one third of the verso, signed תם אלכתאב בעון אלחרמן.; The remainder of fol. 2 verso is filled with five poetic riddles in Wafir meter, all of the same structure, attributed to Dunash ben Labrat, as in the heading לבן אלאבראט. The first starts אמור מה גוף כמו כסף (Davidson, Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew poetry, vol. IV 1531א).; Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 317

Collection:

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