Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 268: Dirges for the Ninth of Av Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 268: Dirges for the Ninth of Av 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/. Strophe endings denoted by a sof pasuḳ; A. (fol. 1) the end of an unknown ḳinah constructed mostly of phrases from Lamentations; last strophe has at least 4 rhyming verses; ends תבוא כל [רע]תם לפניך; B. (fols. 1-2) fully vocalized; after the lead verse רדי עיני רוב דמעה, the alphabetized strophes start אכף ראש וגם קומה. The fragment reaches strophe ט. Four verses per strophe, the first three rhyme with each other, the fourth is rhymed עה-. Strophes א-ע are in a fragment from a different ms., found in Philadelphia NS 5. Condition: consecutive; losses in lower and exterior edges. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 268 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940419483503681 Hebrew Dirges for the Ninth of Av

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 12 X 8.5 cm Columns: 1; lines: 11. Hebrew Oriental square vocalization (Tiberian) 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. Ninth of Av , Liturgy , Texts