Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 262: Part of a Judeo-Arabic version of the Azharah, enumerating the 613 precepts Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 262: Part of a Judeo-Arabic version of the Azharah, enumerating the 613 precepts 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/. Titles of the commandments appear as in Hebrew version, in the right margin in smaller writing; From the Judeo-Arabic version of the Azharah אתה הנחלת תורה לעמך (Davidson: Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew poetry. New York : JTS, 1924, 8788א). The fragment (partially vocalized) contains, parallel to the Hebrew version (in Goldschmidt, Frenkel: Maḥazor Shavuʹot / Yonah Frenḳel, E.D. Goldschmidt [ed.]. Jerusalem : Koren, 2000, p. 617-623), ll. 10-58; See the description by S. Hahn, Ginze Ḳoifman, 1939, pp. 72-73; Halper's notes: In the language as well as in the orthography there is an attempt to imitate classical Arabic. Nevertheless there are such spellings as على = עלא , and له = להו. Some of the words are vocalized, the Tiberian system, as a rule, being used. The pronunciation, however, indicated by the vowels, is not classical, and in many cases the scribe displays ingnorance of elementary rules of Arabic grammar. Thus has has: בארץ֯ אלקֻדּסֻ פֿידאתּ אלטִאל. Systematical a dagesh lene is used in בגד כת. A short slanting line above te letter is used to indicate ف ;ظ;ض ;ذ ;خ ;ث (to differentiate it from פּ); while ض is represented by צ֯. The ش is usually written ש. In some cases a dagesh forte is written for a Tashdid, thus العمات = אלעַמּאת. Condition: consecutive, nearly complete. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 262 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940419413503681 Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic Part of a Judeo-Arabic version of the Azharah, enumerating the 613 precepts

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 17 X 18.4 cm Columns: 1; lines: 16-17; ruling method: left rule justified by stretching last character. Hebrew Oriental square vocalization (Tiberian) 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. Azharot