[Liturgical poems, probably for funeral services] : manuscript.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Yeshuʻah ben Yosef, ha-Kohen, active 11th century, attributed name.
• Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Standardized Title:

• Zidduk ha-din.

Language:

• Hebrew
• Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

• Jewish funeral rites and ceremonies.
• Jewish mourning customs.
• Dirges.
• Eulogies.
• Jewish ethics--Early works to 1800.
• Jewish ethics.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

• 2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): complete, consecutive; folded in reverse
• Paper 17.6 X 13 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 16.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

• Dirges
• Kinot
• Ben Adam al teʾashem
• Heʾasfu anshe emet
• Poetic eulogy
• Aftarot
• Tsiduk ha-din

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [12th century?]

Language Note:

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

• Verse endings are signified by a punctus, strophe endings by a sof pasuḳ and paragraph break.
• Fol. 1 recto and the upper third of the verso: under the heading אחרת לחכם a dirge of six strophes, four rhymed verses each (except for the final strophe which has 6). Apparently not intended for any specific sage.
• Starts: האספו אנשי אמת. This dirge appears in Cambridge TS K25.15 where it is attributed (in the heading) toישועה הכהן בן יוסף הדיין. This poem was published by Sarah Cohen, Tarbits v. 69 (2000, p.449-460) on p. 460, from a different fragment: JTSA ENA 2165.
• The remainder of the fragment, under the heading אחרת, contains the first eight strophes of a Eulogy poem בן אדם אל, probably intended for a Rosh Yeshivah in Erets Israel.
• Four rhyming verses each, the first starts בן אדם followed by the acrostic א-ת at the head of each verse (the fragment reaches verse ס).

Cited in:

• Halper, no. 219
• IMHM, no. F52218, p. 43-44
• UPenn, Genizah fragment no. 892.1C.26

OCLC:

1366218861