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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: 
Creative Commons License
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