Paraliterary text: T-S 32.4

Paraliterary text T-S 32.4

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T-S 32.4
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Hebrew

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Recto: liturgy for the concluding Neʿila service on Yom Kippur (צלוה נעילה), consisting of seliḥot by ʿEli b. Amram, in his own handwriting (according to Beeri 2003: 315). Verso: part of (end missing) a beautifully written and fully vocalised poem of praise in honour of ʿAdaya b. Menashshe (son of Abū Sahl Menashshe b. Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Qazzāz), a leading Qaraite courtier, who was kātib al-jaysh in Syria-Palestine for the Fatimids, c. 1020s. Between the lines and in the right-hand margin, ʿEli b. Amram has adapted the existing poem (using its metrics and rhyme, and borrowing the odd phrase here and there) to create a new panegyric (of 45 lines) in praise of Peraḥya, who Beeri (2003: 215) identifies as the son-in-law of the Nagid Yehuda b. Seʿadya. ʿEli’s reworked poem must date to after 1064, when Yehuda became Nagid. (Information from CUDL.)

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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In PGP since 2022
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T-S 32.4 1r

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1r

T-S 32.4 1v

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1v
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