Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 239: Liturgy for Yom Kippur Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 239: Liturgy for Yom Kippur 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 punctus; Most of the piyutim here are common found arranged in the Ḳedushta for Yom Kippur שושן עמק; Fol. 1: A. A complete version of אך אומרים לפניך (Thesaurus of mediaeval Hebrew poetry / Israel Davidson. New York : JTS, 1924, 3211), possibly Kallirian (Maḥazor le-yamim ha-noraʾim / E.D. Goldschmidt [ed.]. Jerusalem : Koren, 1970, v. 2, p. 357); B. בקצף אם אשמינו סקרת (TMHP 1315) possibly Kallirian (Goldschmidt, ibid. p. 383. Verses through are damaged; C. The Kallirian אמיצי שחקים ממעל (TMHP 5708). The fragment reaches verse מ; Fol. 2: D. The last 10 verses (מ-ת) of אתה ברחמיך הרבים רחם עלינו (TMHP 8716); E. A piyyut of short verses, averaging 8 syllables each, alphabetically arranged, one verse per letter. Starts איום אין בלעדיך; F. In a similar scheme: אל עורך דין\ באמת ואין עול (TMHP 3953). Verses and onwards are damaged or missing from the bottom of the recto; G. In a similar scheme (5 syllables per verse) אל אלהינו בשמים\ גבור ונערץ (Goldschmidt, ibid. p.376); H. אל [אמונה] אתה ורחום לכל מאמינך (Goldschmidt, ibid. p. 378); I. The beginning of לאוהב צדקות\ לבוחן כליות (Goldschmidt, ibid. p 380). Verses ז and onwards are damaged or missing from the bottom of the verso. Condition: non-consecutive; damaged, losses in external and lower edges. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 239 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940419193503681 Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic Liturgy for Yom Kippur

Parchment

 18.4 X 18.4 cm Columns: 1; lines: 22-24. Hebrew Oriental semi-cursive vocalization (Tiberian) Material applied: black ink

10th century-13th century?

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