[Signature of the Exilarch David] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Ex libris of the Naśi David

Contributor:

Daṿid, Naśi, 12th century (attributed name)

Date:

1100s

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:

David, Naśi, 12th century Bookplates

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : nearly complete, torn; verso is blank

Rights:

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

Notes:

A signature on an otherwise blank piece of paper, possibly an ex libris inscribed on the first page of a codex. It reads, in rough cursive script: הודו ליי׳ כי טוב \ מרשות אדוננו \ דוד הנשיא הגדול \ ראש גליות כל ישראל \ יעזרהם אלהים על כלל. Possibly referring to David ben Zakai, who reigned as the Exilarch between 917 and 940, but more likely the later, 12th century Exilarch mentioned by Abraham Maimonides. See Gil, Be-malkhut Yishmaʹel bi-teḳufat ha-geʹonim / Mosheh Gil. Tel Aviv : University of Tel Aviv, 1997, vol. 1, p. 437 n. 255; sporadically vocalized.; Hebrew. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 463

Collection:

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