[From a Judeo-Arabic treatise on the meaning of dreams] : manuscript

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1100s

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:

Dreams -- Early works to 1800; Dreams; Judeo-Arabic literature

Resource Type:

Text

Physical Description:

1 folio : fragment, containing complete length of page but lacking all of exterior and most of interior edges; erasure on verso

Rights:

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

Notes:

Text breaks are denoted by a punctus.; Recto and first line of verso contain the latter part of a list of numbered chapters and their contents, and includes the descriptions of chapters 7-23.; The chapter headings list topics such as candles, wine, cheese, birds, marriage, prayer and women. The rest of the verso is from the preface to the monograph. The essay opens with a quotation form the Moslem classic on this topic by Ibn Sirin (Ben Sira).; The hand appears to be unprofessional, and the verso includes an erasure, which may indicate that this is an autograph or draft copy.; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 148

Collection:

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