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Authors

• Elhanan ben Shemariah,d. 1026

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• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940419923503681

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Notes

• Recto had 39 lines (Halper); the poem ends in the middle of the verso, the remainder is blank. Each verse starts a new line, verse endings are signified by a period; some words vocalized; A complete copy of Elḥanan ben Shemaryahu's Ethical poem אשרי אדם מצא חכמה (Davidson, Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew poetry, v.1 n. 8358). Sixty verses that rhyme רים-. The acrostic signature of the first fifteen verses reads אלחנן בירבי שמריה; On the author, see E. Bareqet, Shafrir Mitsraim, 1995, p. 153-164 (Fustat on the Nile, Leiden, 1999, p. 220).
   
• Condition: complete, folded widthwise at center.
   

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Material applied: black ink

Script

Provenance

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

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