Palestinian Vocalised Piyyut Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections
Palestinian Vocalised Piyyut Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections
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In the Semitic languages the vowels are not part of the alphabet and each Semitic language has its special method of marking its particular vowel values. This book describes the oldest known vocalisation system of Hebrew--a supralinear method that was introduced in the seventh century, and soon displaced by the classical Tiberian system. The volume provides full descriptions of the scattered Genizah fragments containing this particular system, as it was applied to pieces of ancient liturgical poetry.
- The first volume to give a full description of the scattered Genizah fragments which contain the oldest known vocalisation system of Hebrew
- Contains some 150 fragments of manuscript mainly drawn from the Genizah collection at Cambridge University Library
Product details
April 1997Hardback
9780521583992
95 pages
205 × 306 × 14 mm
0.515kg
16 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Description of major fragments (A-L)
- 3. Descriptions of minor fragments (1-81)
- Indexes
- Plates.
