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• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940419983503681

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• In Wafir meter; under the heading, stating that the poem is dedicated to the honorableיחיה בר אברהם שר בית ישראל ,twenty-seven monorhymed lines starting חכם סופרים ושורש החסידים. This may be the philanthropist mentioned in a document published by Jacob Mann: The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine under the Fatimid caliphs. London : Oxford Univ. Press, v. 2, p. 319. On the verso is another copy of the first lines of the poem, apparently its draft. Much of the blank space of the verso is covered with jottings and writing exercises in different hands.
   
• Condition: losses along lower edge; widthwise mail format folds; faded; draft(?), scribblings, pen tests on verso.
   

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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

• Laudatory poetry, Hebrew

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