COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
Rylands Genizah 1 - 1
Obverse:
Rylands Genizah 1 - 2
Image Number:
JRL050271dc
Image Title:
Kol Nidre poem
Subject:
Liturgy and Poetry
Date created:
11th century, end?
Language:
Hebrew
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Parchment
Item height:
437 mm
Item width:
187 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Bibliographic Reference:
Wallenstein, M., 'Two fragments from the Cairo Geniza in the John Rylands Library, Manchester', Sinai 45, 1959, pp. 302-14, esp. 303-10 (in Hebrew) (transcription).
Bibliographic Reference:
Wallenstein, M., 'A unique Kol-Nidrê piyyut', Bulletin of the JRULM 41/2, 1959, pp. 488-500 (facsimile edition and transcription).
Notes:
39 lines. Alphabetic acrostic kerovah. A Hebrew poetic version of a formula to cancel foolish vows, parallel to the Aramaic prose kol nidre of the eve of Yom Kippur, used in a piyyut recited in the morning service on the eve of Rosh ha-Shanah.
Discovery site:
Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
Current repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository:
Moses Gaster
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Fragments
Image rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights:
JRUL
Access rights:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number:
RGF00001-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2008-05-21
Date: added:
2009-03
Metadata language:
eng-GB
