Cairo Genizah : Poetry

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Bifolium from a collection of poetry, preserving two elegies and two eulogies. The beginning of the first elegy is missing. The second elegy (f. 1r-v) is for al-Rayyis Abū l-Ḥasan Ṣadoq b. al-Rayyis Av. Folio 2 contains the panegyrics. The second, on f. 2v, is incomplete and has an acrostic marked with dots. Someone has helpfully written out the words that it spells, as far as it is preserved: חצרה סידנא ‫…‬ השרים נט רח.</p>