[Signature of the Exilarch David] : manuscript
- Alternate Title
- Ex libris of the Naśi David
- Creator
- Daṿid, Naśi, 12th century (attributed name)
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 463
- Form
- books
- Date
- between 1100 and 1199
- Language
- Hebrew
- Subject
- David, Naśi, 12th century Bookplates
- Extent
- 1 folio : nearly complete, torn; verso is blank
- Publisher
- [publisher not identified]
- Notes
- A signature on an otherwise blank piece of paper, possibly an ex libris inscribed on the first page of a codex. It reads, in rough cursive script: הודו ליי׳ כי טוב \ מרשות אדוננו \ דוד הנשיא הגדול \ ראש גליות כל ישראל \ יעזרהם אלהים על כלל. Possibly referring to David ben Zakai, who reigned as the Exilarch between 917 and 940, but more likely the later, 12th century Exilarch mentioned by Abraham Maimonides. See Gil, Be-malkhut Yishmaʹel bi-teḳufat ha-geʹonim / Mosheh Gil. Tel Aviv : University of Tel Aviv, 1997, vol. 1, p. 437 n. 255; sporadically vocalized.
- Hebrew. Hebrew
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 463
- Provenance
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
- Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
- Amram.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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