Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 218: Collection of prayers and dirges for the dead Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 218: Collection of prayers and dirges for the dead 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 signified by a punctus; Fol. 1 recto contains a five line of a prayer probably from an Hashkavah or Aftara Service, that starts זו היא הדרך; The rest of the page is empty, save for a secondary inscription in Judeo-Arabic, written in the opposite direction, תפצל אלשיך אבו אלכבן, probably a draft; So too in fol. 1 verso, there is a thirteen line prayer of a similar type, that starts [הנה מקום, ה[נה; The remainder of the page is blank, save for secondary inscriptions in Judeo-Arabic and in Hebrew written in the opposite direction, including the first to lines of Judah ha-Levi's farewell for his relative Abraham, that starts דודים נסעו (in the Diṿan published by Brody: Diṿan / Yehudah ben Shemuʾel ha-Leṿi ; Heinrich Brody [ed.]. Berlin : Ḥevrat meḳitse nirdamin, 1910, v. 1, p. 143); Fol. 2 recto contains a third such prayer. It takes 17 lines and starts אסיפת שלום תהא אסיפתו. Condition: nearly complete; damaged; stained and faded, some parts illegible; fol. 2v blank, save secondary jottings/reed tests. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 218 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940418983503681 Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic Collection of prayers and dirges for the dead

Paper

 16.6 X 12.7 cm Columns: 1; lines: 5-17. Hebrew Oriental semi-cursive Material applied: black ink

12th century-14th century?

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