Paraliterary text: T-S Misc.35.22

Paraliterary text T-S Misc.35.22

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Shelfmark
T-S Misc.35.22
Primary Language
Hebrew

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Maqāma-like work in rhymed Hebrew prose by a certain Shelomo b. Yehuda (not the 11th-century gaʾon, as this fragment is probably 12th–13th century), describing how his father Yehuda migrated from Spain to Egypt to Yemen, married a woman in Yemen, and returned to Egypt, where Shelomo was born. But then the devil led the father astray to take a second wife, who gave birth to a son named Evyatar and two daughters "of different religions"(?!). One of the girls died; Shelomo accuses his brother Evyatar of trying to sleep with the remaining sister; both Evyatar and the remaining sister died; and now Shelomo is writing this hymn of gratitude on account of how God liberated him from his wicked half-siblings. Recto is written over jottings in Arabic script, mainly formulae. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Loan 38.22; TS Box Misc. 35, f. 22; TS Box Misc. 35, fol. 22
Input date
In PGP since 2018
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Translation

T-S Misc.35.22 1r

1r

T-S Misc.35.22 1v

1v
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