Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 328: Megilat ha-Śaṭan ha-yaduʹa Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 328: Megilat ha-Śaṭan ha-yaduʹa 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/. The three lines of the title are in large, hollow letters filled in different colors; each verse starts a new line; verse endings denoted by inverted triangular dots; The first folio of a historical document of the "Megillah" type, in which a miraculous recent event is retold in the style of Esther. Often the "Megillah" is read on the date commemorating the event, stylized as a local "Purim". This one provides a Judeo-Arabic translation after each verse; Entitled מגלת השטן הידוע שמרד \ במלך סולימאן, this "Megillah" retells the events of the rebellion of Ahmad Pasha (here: Basha) against Suleiman I of Turkey in 1524, and its effects on the Jews of Cairo; A complete copy of this "Megillah", in which the Arabic translation appears in a parallel column, is found in London, British Library Or. 7768 (Margoliouth no. 1170). Condition: loss at upper internal corner; fol. 1 is blank. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 328 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420073503681 Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic Megilat ha-Śaṭan ha-yaduʹa Yěhūdah, ha-Levī, ca.1085-1141 Yehudah ha-Leṿi 1079-1140 Judah 1075?-1141 ha-Levi Jehuda ha-Levi, ca 1075-1141 יהודה הלוי Haleṿi, Yehudah Judah, ha-Levi, 1075?-1141 Jehuda Halevi, u.1075-1141. Judah ha-Levi ок.1075-1141 גורדון, יקותיאל בן יהודה ליב Gordon, Yeḳutiʼel ben Yehudah Leyb Yĕhūdāh ha-Lēwī Ha-Levi, Judah, ca 1075-1141 Juda Halevi Иегуда Галеви, u.1075-1141. Halevi, Jehudah

Paper

 20.3 X 14.6 cm Columns: 1; lines: 16; ruling method: left rule justified by stretching last character. Hebrew Oriental square Material applied: black and colored inks

16th century?

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