טקסט ספרותי: T-S AS 42.280 + T-S NS 310.55

תיאור

Another version of Ibn Yijū's poem in praise of Maḍmūn and cursing his enemies (India Book II, 39), in the hand of the same scribe as AIU IV.C.486 (PGPID 39481). Identification and join by Alan Elbaum with the assistance of the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions (https://zenodo.org/records/17734473). There are a few interesting variants here compared to the other copies: - There is no header (T-S 8J16.23 starts ולה איצא ימדח סידנא מצמון נגיד עם יי) - A trivial change of אברהם בנו יגו to אברהם נין יגו - A significant change of the recipient: instead of בנו יפת (referring to Maḍmūn the son of Yefet) it says בנו מחפוץ ("the son of Maḥfūẓ"). In fact the paper is mildly damaged here, and the word Maḥfūẓ is squeezed into a space that is slightly too small. Looking closely, it seems possible that the scribe first wrote יפת and then changed it to the word מחפוץ. The best candidate among Ibn Yijū's associates might be Ḥalfon b. Shemarya (aka Abū Saʿīd b. Maḥfūẓ) Ibn Jumayhir; see Goitein and Friedman, India Traders, 331n13 (edition of T-S 20.130, India Book II, 20). The lower piece was published by Allony in "משירת ספרד ולשונה," Sinai 55 (1964), 257, who did not know what to make of the name יגו and did not identify the poet.