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• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940418983503681

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• Text breaks are signified by a punctus; Fol. 1 recto contains a five line of a prayer probably from an Hashkavah or Aftara Service, that starts זו היא הדרך; The rest of the page is empty, save for a secondary inscription in Judeo-Arabic, written in the opposite direction, תפצל אלשיך אבו אלכבן, probably a draft; So too in fol. 1 verso, there is a thirteen line prayer of a similar type, that starts [הנה מקום, ה[נה; The remainder of the page is blank, save for secondary inscriptions in Judeo-Arabic and in Hebrew written in the opposite direction, including the first to lines of Judah ha-Levi's farewell for his relative Abraham, that starts דודים נסעו (in the Diṿan published by Brody: Diṿan / Yehudah ben Shemuʾel ha-Leṿi ; Heinrich Brody [ed.]. Berlin : Ḥevrat meḳitse nirdamin, 1910, v. 1, p. 143); Fol. 2 recto contains a third such prayer. It takes 17 lines and starts אסיפת שלום תהא אסיפתו.
   
• Condition: nearly complete; damaged; stained and faded, some parts illegible; fol. 2v blank, save secondary jottings/reed tests.
   

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Material applied: black ink

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

Subjects topical

• Jewish mourning customs

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