Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 283: Collected poems Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 283: Collected poems 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/. Each strophe begins a new paragraph; poem endings denoted by a circle; A. (recto) Heading אהבה לר׳ יצחק Isaac Ibn Ghiyyat's Ahavah יד לאומים כבדה על אמונים (the refrain: שמור י]דידיך אל וברך מקהלותם]) (not mentioned in Y. David: Shire R. Yitsḥaḳ Ibn Giyat / Yonah Daṿid. 1038-1089. Jerusalem : Akhshav, 1987). 4 four-verse strophes forming the acrostic signature יצחק. Every fourth verse rhymes תם-; B. (verso) Heading קול אחר. The first three strophes (14 verses) of a secular poem by Abraham ibn Ezra בעלי ריבי שעו נא ממריבה (Davidson, Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew poetry 1141ב; J. Egers: Diṿan le-Rabi Avraham ben ʹEzra / ʹAkiva Egers [ed.]. Berlin, 1886, p. 85 nop. 192). Condition: damaged, loss in lower corner(?). United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 283 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940419653503681 Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic Collected poems

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 16.4 X 12.7 cm Columns: 1; lines: 17 (recto) 18 (verso). Hebrew Oriental semi-cursive Material applied: black ink

11th century-13th century?

Orient Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library). Amram. Piyutim