Legal query or responsum: T-S NS 320.44

Description

Document in the form of a legal query addressed to ha-Dayyan ha-Mufla. Asking about the meter (min ayy al-aʿārīḍ/al-buḥūr) and any metrical deviations (ziḥāf) of a Hebrew poem by a deceased poet which begins מי זאת... (based on Song of Songs 3:6). Probably מִי זֹאת כְּמוֹ שַׁחַר עוֹלָה וְנִשְׁקָפָה by Ibn Gabirol; identification kindly provided by Fred MacDowell. The querier also asks if there is anything on the pattern of "meshuhemet" (משוהמת), a category of words criticized by Moshe Ibn ʿEzra in Kitāb al-Muḥāḍara (see Aurora Ossorio, "Shem Tov Ibn Falaquera: From Logic to Ethics," Comparative Literature Studies 45 no. 2 (2008), 165–81).