COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 3173 - 1
Obverse:
B 3173 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0702270dc
Image Title:
Liturgical poem
Subject:
Liturgy and Poetry
Creator:
Sa`adia ben Joseph Gaon (882-942)
Creator Role:
Author
Source title:
Attah hu ha-Shem
Section:
Attah hu ha-Shem ha-noten shemesh (quoted in Hebrew on lines 3-4)
Citation reference:
I. Davidson, S. Assaf, and B.I. Joel (eds.), Siddur R. Saadja Gaon (1963), p. 50.4-10 (with variants; lines 3-15)
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Vocalisation:
Tiberian
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
131 mm
Item width:
89 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Bibliographic Reference:
Davidson I, p. 396, no. 8755.
Notes:
15 lines. Tetragrammaton vocalised only. The beginning of the section of this Judeo-Arabic poem is first quoted in Hebrew on lines 3-4. Similar in style to the first of two bakkashot in Sa`adia's siddur (p. 47 onwards). On p. 46 Tsemah ben Joshua comments that he found this poem only in Sa`adia's Hebrew original and not also in Sa`adia's later Judeo-Arabic translation, so that he has decided to translate it as well as possible to the Arabic. This means that the present fragment might represent another Judeo-Arabic version of the same poem, perhaps even the possibly lost one made by Sa`adia himself.
Discovery site:
Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
Current repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository:
Moses Gaster
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Fragments
Image rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Access rights:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number:
B03173-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-01-23
Date: added:
2007-03
Metadata language:
eng-GB
