Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 168: Judeo-Arabic treatise on prayer Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 168: Judeo-Arabic treatise on prayer 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 ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts 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/. Text breaks are denoted by 2-3 spaces; fascicle number "ב" on recto; A fol. from a treatise on prayer including much Talmudic citation, dealing with the general principles behind regulated daily prayer (perhaps an introduction), and the Talmudic sources of the three daily prayers, Mishnah Berakhot IV 1,3, Talmud ibid. 31a, 22b; Among the known Gaonic monographs, the content here is most fitting to Samuel ben Ḥofni Gaon's Kitab al-ʹimma, a title found in a booklist published by Schechter: Saadyana / S. Schechter [ed.]. Cambridge : Deighton and Bell, 1903, p. 54. Condition: nearly-complete. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 168 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940418543503681 Judeo-Arabic; Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE) Judeo-Arabic treatise on prayer

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 21.6 X 15.7 cm Columns: 1; lines: 22. Hebrew Oriental semi-square Material applied: black ink

12th century-13th century?

Orient Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library). Amram. Prayer , Judaism , Early works to 1800