[Liturgical poems for mourners] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Dirges; Ḳinot; Afṭarot; Tsiduḳ ha-din

Name:

Yoshayah ben Neḥemyah, ha-Ḥazan

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:

Jewish mourning customs; Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew; Dirges; Piyutim

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): consecutive; losses along upper and exterior edges

Rights:

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

Notes:

Only fol. 1r is fully vocalized.; The first segment of the fragment is a Tsiduk ha-din, apparently unrhymed. The beginning is missing. Ends כי מעשה ידיו כולם. The second, and final segment starts on the verso of fol. 1 l. 3 אל ל]בו יתן החי ויפקח עיין], constructed of four-verse strophes.; The content ends towards the bottom of fol. 2 verso, followed by a colophon, marked by a graphic border. It readsחזק לרב יאשיה החזן\ בירבי נחמיה ראש\ הפרק תנצב"ה, which identifies the author of the dirges.; The exact same colophon is found on a fragment of liturgical pieces in British Library Or. 5557A fols. 47-58. This Josiah's ḳetubah written to Kharima bat Isaac, is in Oxford Bodleian Heb. a. 2 fol. 1 (Cowely 2805, 1) dated 1055.; His father the Rosh Perek of Fustat is the recipient of a responsum of R Ḥai Gaon in Cambridge NS 324.112 Mosseri VII 157, dated April 1037 (Gil, Be-Malkhut Ishmael, 1997, vol. II no. 40), in which our author is blessed by the Gaon (l. 14).; Hebrew. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 274

Collection:

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