Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 291: Matsdar for the Sabbath of the reading Aḥare mot Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 291: Matsdar for the Sabbath of the reading Aḥare mot 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/. In the first poem each verse starts a new line, but this structure is neglected in the second; verse endings denoted by a punctus; The first folio of the booklet, the recto is the title page, includes only the title: פרשת אחרי מות תקאל\ לפרחיה הכהן בר טרפון נ״ע (the second line is in a different hand than the first); The verso starts the Matsdar ויהי כל פועל בזרוע רמה. Seven verses, monorhymed רון-, that form the acrostic signature פרחיה; Heading: אחר ליוסף. Joseph Albaradani's Matsdar יהי אור אמר ראשון ואחרון. Published from other ms. sources, by T. Beeri, ha-Ḥazan ha-gadol asher be-Vagda / Tova Beeri [ed.]. Jerusalem : Makhon Ben-Tsevi, 2002, p. 229; See Mann, The Jews of Egypt, 1922, vol. II p. 169, a similar Matsdar booklet in which our Peraḥyah appears on the title page as the owner or copyist. He also appears in Cambridge T-S 24.74, a document dated 1104 in Fustat, and signed on another, Cambridge T-S 8J 11.15, of the court of Matsliaḥ ha-Kohen Gaon (1127-1139). The signature there is identical to ours here, so Peraḥyah may also be the copyist or owner of this booklet. Condition: torn, losses from the lower end. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 291 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940419723503681 Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew Matsdar for the Sabbath of the reading Aḥare mot Albaradani, Joseph,ca. 925-ca. 999. former owner Peraḥyah ben Ṭarfon, ha-Kohen.

Paper

 15.2 X 14.6 cm Columns: 1; lines: 2 (recto) 13 extant (verso). Hebrew 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). Amram. Piyutim