Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978120415103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1306242284
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p31g0jc8j

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1300-1399

Summary

Fragment of a commentary on the Pentateuch in Judeo-Arabic, surviving at the later portions of Exodus XXV (discussion of the creation of the Ark of the Convenant on recto, and the creation of the Menorah on verso). Written in an eastern semicursive script; various sentence-style punctuations (colons, dashes, and overlines on abbreviations) throughout; 19 long lines (surviving).

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Formerly held in the Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College).
   
• Transferred to the Cairo Genizah Collection (Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscript fragments--Specimens
• History
• Manuscript fragments
• Ark of the Covenant
• Tabernacle
• Tabernacle
• Menorah
• Jews--Middle East--14th century--History--Sources
• Menorah
• Ark of the Covenant
• Jews
• Middle East

Genres

• Sources
• Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--14th century
• Commentaries
• Fragments (object portions)
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Specimens

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies a CAJS: RAR MS 82.313.1.7a: Judeo-Arabic commentary to Exodus XXV 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/.

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• Text

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