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Tag: poem
43 records found
Begging letter, prefaced with a rhyming poem, from Isaac the blind ("bereft of all the pleasures of the world"), asking for assistance from Ismaʿīl b. ʿAdāya. See also Goitein's note cards (attached and #27116). On verso is a fragment from a liturgical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic, discussing which blessings to say over drinks other than wine (either בורא פרי העץ or בורא פרי האדמה). Information from CUDL and Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 447.
Recto: Fragment cut out from a poem of Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver. In the margin is a fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Verso: Legal query in a different hand concerning a husband whose wife died, and he is claiming her possessions from her mother. See Goitein's note cards and the attached correspondence with M. A. Friedman.
Poem in Hebrew. 17 lines in praise of a dignitary, then 2 lines of blessing in Judaeo-Arabic, then it ends. "From your grateful slave, Shemuel." ASE.
Panegyric composed by Arah b. Natan (Musafir b. Wahb) for someone in a high governmental position. (Information from Frenkel).
Hebrew poem written by the cantor Aharon b. Efrayim for a man named Shelomo. (Information from Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, p. 41). Other poems on verso.
Fragment of a poem praising the Nagid, whose name is only hinted at. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Poem praising the generosity of a philanthropist. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Dirge of 38 lines by the judge Natan b. Shemuel on one Moshe. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 574)
Recto: Poems by Yehuda ha-Levi, copied by the India trader Avraham Ibn Yijū. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card)
Letter in Judeo-Arabic to Sitt al-Nas bint Moses b. Josiah from a female cousin (both are also in-laws), the daughter of Joseph b. Josiah, asking her to live with her after the death of her husband. On verso is an Arabic love poem (in a different hand). (Information from CUDL and Cecilia Palombo)
Poem on the occasion of a marriage, followed by a letter from Shelah b. Nahoum, probably from Tyre, to Abu al-Khair Efrayim ca. 1085, which continues on verso. (Information from CUDL)
Piyyutim in an unknown hand. (Information from CUDL)
Document containing a lines of poetry in the hand of the judge Natan b. Shemuel. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2:235, 574) EMS
Poetry, possibly a riddle, with allusions to Moshe, Abraham, and the spies from Numbers 13-14, (Hosea) b. Nun and (Caleb) b. Jephunneh. (Information from the Cambridge Genizah Research Unit via FGP).
Poem by Avraham Ibn Yiju praising Madmun b. Ḥasan and cursing his enemies. Aden, ca. 1140-1144.
Poem by Avraham Ibn Yiju praising Madmun b. Ḥasan as a defender of the faith (and as a defender of Avraham Ibn Yiju himself). Aden, ca. 1141.
Dirge on the death of a scholar which also appears in another document (Or 5557 P. f. 56) believed to have been written on the occasion of the demise of Shemarya b. Elhanan (ca. 1011). (Information from J. Mann, Jews, II, pp. 27-28, and Goitein's index cards)
Poems, evidently pages from a collection, beginning with the final section of Avraham ibn Ezra's 'Aha yarad,' the lament over the communities of Spain and North Africa destroyed by the Almohads. This section deals with the communities in North Africa.
Poem written by Abū l-Maḥāsin b. Abū Naṣr al-Ḥasid.
Final draft of mixed Qaraite-Rabbanite court document concerning the sale of a house. On verso there is rhymed poetry (seliḥa). Joins by Oded Zinger. For edition and analysis, see Zinger's article.
