Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 315: Collected poems Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 315: 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 verse begins a new line; verses divided into hemistichs by a space, but no effort is made to unify the length of the halves into two consistent columns; sporadically vocalized; Fol. 1r 1: A. The last eleven verses of́ העודף מחזיק בתומתך by Isaac ben Ezra, in Kamil meter. Published by M. Schmelzer: Shirim / Yitsḥaḳ ben Avraham ibn ʹEzra ; Menachem Schmelzer [ed.]. New York : JTS, 1980, no. 35; Fol. 1r 13: B. In Wafir meter; the common Judeo-Arabic heading حرا ايضاَ (sic! in Arabic characters) indicating that the next poem was composed by the same poet as the previous: קרבי מפני דתך יחילון, six verses (Schmelzer, ibid. no. 19); Fol. 1v 6: C. under similar heading, the short poem למתי הזמן יטרח ואשא. (Schmelzer, ibid. p. 25, no. 20); Fol. 1v 9-16: D. copied by a different, smaller hand. Under the heading יהודה הלוי, three two-verse riddles by Judah ha-Levi, each with a different heading (in Hebrew characters), which is the definition alluded to in the riddle; Fol. 1v 9: 1. Heading פי סחאבה מטר / ומה בוכה בלי עין (Davidson, Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts 342ו; in the Diṿan published by Brody, Berlin, 1910, vol. II, p. 209); Fol. 1v 12: 2. פי אלמראה / כלי מכיל לאין תכלית (TMHP 416כ; Brody ibid. 195); Fol. 1v 15: 3. פי אלדיך / ומה מלך במגבעת אדומה (TMHP 360ו; Brody ibid. 202); Fol. 2r-v: E. Isaac ben Ezra's יליד ימים אשר שניו חרוצות, twenty-eight verses, rhymed צות- (Schmelzer, ibid. pp. 17-19 no. 8). Condition: non-consecutive (Halper: outer sheet of fasc.); losses. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 315 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940419953503681 Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic Collected poems Ibn Ezra, Isaac, active 12th century

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