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Tag: dirge
14 records found
Elegy on the death of the wife [actually: the mother] of the Nagid Mevorakh by Sedaqa b. Yehuda in which condolences to the Nagid and his two sons are offered.
A lament.
Dirge (seliḥa) written by Efrayim b. Shemarya after the death of the gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda, May 1051.
Lament (seliha) by Efrayim b. Shemarya after the death of Shelomo b. Yehuda, May 1051. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya.
Dirges in Hebrew for the deaths of women, including at least one that the poet composed for his own daughter. It would be interesting to compare these to Abū Ḥayyān al-Andalusi's (d. 1344) dirges for his daughter Nuḍār (see e.g. Homerin, "Reflection on Poetry in the Mamluk Age," where it is stated that "even a single elegy for a daughter is rare in Arabic poetry"). Information in part from Goitein's note card. ASE.
Dirges in Hebrew for the deaths of women, including at least one that the poet composed for his own daughter. It would be interesting to compare these to Abū Ḥayyān al-Andalusi's (d. 1344) dirges for his daughter Nuḍār (see e.g. Homerin, "Reflection on Poetry in the Mamluk Age," where it is stated that "even a single elegy for a daughter is rare in Arabic poetry"). Information in part from Goitein's note card. ASE.
Colophon or ownership note on a book cover. 'This booklet belongs to Yiṣḥaq b. Ghālib ha-Ḥazzan (the cantor).' Dating: first half of the 12th century, assuming this is the same Yiṣḥaq b. Ghālib who signed documents by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (e.g., Bodl. MS heb. b 11/31). On the other side, a dirge in Judaeo-Arabic.
Dirge by Avraham Ibn Yiju on Madmun b. Ḥasan's death. Yemen, 1151.
Dirge on the death of Saadya b. Yehuda the Nagid, styled 'Sar.' Dated to the end of the 11th century. (Information from Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, pp. 137, 138)
Dirge for a R. Maymun. (Information from Goitein's index cards) T-S 10J22.2 C, D
End of a dirge for a woman who had died a month earlier. (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: letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. CUDL dates it to 14th–15th century probably based on the use of the verb "ארסל" for "send," but in fact this verb is used frequently in the classical Geniza period. Little of the content is preserved. Verso: dirge in Hebrew for a deceased mother. (Information in part from CUDL)
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)
