Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 227: Karaite prayer-book with instructions in Judeo-Arabic Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 227: Karaite prayer-book with instructions in Judeo-Arabic 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/. Verse endings denoted by a sof pasuḳ; A including the last fol. of a prayer-book, probably Karaite, as all the prayers are comprised of biblical verses and passages. The theme is that of Lamentation and Penitence. Well known Psalms are listed here by their lead word, prefixed by the Judeo-Arabic instruction תקול; fol. 2r is the end of the text; at bottom is a sentence in Arabic characters. Condition: non-consecutive, nearly complete; fol. 2 verso is blank. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 227 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940419083503681 Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic; Arabic Karaite prayer-book with instructions in Judeo-Arabic

Parchment

 14.4 X 14.4 cm Columns: 1; lines: 13-15. Hebrew Arabic Oriental semi-square Material applied: black ink

11th century-12th century?

Orient Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library). Adler. Karaites , Liturgy , Texts