Description of University of Pennsylvania CAJS: RAR MS 82.313.3: Fragment of Dalālat al-ḥāʼirīn University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies CAJS: RAR MS 82.313.3: Fragment of Dalālat al-ḥāʼirīn are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2022 University of Pennsylvania Libraries and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703 University of Pennsylvania Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies CAJS: RAR MS 82.313.3 9978120409103681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1308415757 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3n873j0q Early fragment (originally a bifolium) of Maimonides' Dalālat al-ḥāʼirīn (known as the Guide to the perplexed) in Judeo-Arabic, attributed in the NLI catalog to the scribe Shelomoh ben Shemuʼel Ha-levi (son of Saʻadiah ha-Dayan, likely of Fostat; other fragments of Dalālat al-ḥāʼirīn, also possibly written by Shelomoh ben Shemuʼel Ha-levi, have survived in the Genizah). Text loss at corners and upper center of the manuscript; extant text from Part II, Chapters 29-30, and partially 32. Written in an eastern cursive script; chapter headings in an eastern square script (above line). Written in 20 lines, with line breaks and plosive marks. In Judeo-Arabic Fragment of Dalālat al-ḥāʼirīn קטע מדלאלה אלחאירין Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 בן מיימון, משה Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מיימון Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)

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