[Dirges] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Ḳinot for the dead; Tsiduḳ ha-din; Poetic eulogy; Afṭarot

Name:

Joseph ben Sheshet ibn Latimi; Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). RAR MS

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:

Jewish mourning customs; Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts; Judaism -- Liturgy; Dirges; Eulogies; Jewish funeral rites and ceremonies

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : torn, losses in upper and exterior edges

Rights:

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

Notes:

Each strophe begins a new line after indentation. One word is vocalized.; The folio starts with at least six strophes from a poetic eulogy, הוי שוגים התמהמהו, by Joseph ben Sheshet ibn Latimi. A complete version was published by Dov Yarden: Sefer zikaron leha-Rav Yitsḥaḳ Nisim, zekher tsadiḳ li-verakhah, ha-Rishon le-Tsiyon, ha-Rav ha-rashi le-Yiśraʾel / ba-ʻarikhat Meʾir Benayahu, Jerusalem, 1985, vol. 5, pp. 231-232 (no. 42); Followed by, under the heading צדוק הדין, the first three verses of הצור תמים בכל פעול (Davidson, Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew poetry 944ה).; Hebrew. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, RAR MS 85.126.7