ID: 700008976 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008976	Record Type: Movable Work
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Jewish Prayer (manuscript (documents); unknown Jewish; ca. 7th/9th century; Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris, Île-de-France, France); Pelliot hébreu I 1412; )

Note: From the Mogao Grottoes Cave 17, Dunhuang, Gansu Province. This eighteen-line fragment, missing both the beginning and the ending, is an exceedingly rare Jewish document among the tens of thousands preserved in the Library Cave.1 Prayers primarily drawn from the Book of Psalms are written in Hebrew with vocalization marks (superscript notations for vowels) of the so-called Babylonian school.2 The fragment takes the poetic form of the acrostic, with each stanza beginning with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The paper used for this manuscript is similar to that in use in ninthand tenth-century Dunhuang.4 Its horizontal creases may indicate that it was folded and worn by its owner as an amulet or talisman.

Titles:

Jewish Prayer (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

猶太祈禱文 (C,U,Chinese,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

manuscript (documents) [300028569] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by conditions of production>)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 7th/9th century

Creator Display:

unknown Jewish [preferred]

scribe unknown Jewish (Jewish cultural designation) [500203491]

Locations:

Current: Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris, Île-de-France, France) [500309981] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: Pelliot hébreu I 1412

Other: Discovery: Qianfodong [7029798] Gansu province (province), China (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Ink on paper

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: 29.3 × 22.2 cm (11 9⁄16 × 6 3⁄4 in.)

Cultures:

(preferred)

General Subject:

text (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	prayer (literary genre) [300026452]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>) (AAT)

	Book of Psalms [901001353]
	.....((Bible, Old Testament, Bible, Literary works: Philosophy, Religion, Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	talisman [300234011]
	.....(Objects Facet, Object Genres (hierarchy name), object genres (object classifications), <object genres by function>) (AAT)

	Hebrew (language) [300388401]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), language-related concepts, <languages and writing systems>, <languages and writing systems by specific type>, <temporary alphabetical list: languages and writing systems>) (AAT)

	acrostics [300256198]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by form>) (AAT)

Related Works:

	former location was .... Mogao Cave 17 [700008877]
	..........rock-cut temple; N/A; begun 9th century

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

............... Works at Mogao

Sources and Contributors:
Jewish Prayer	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)
猶太祈禱文	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) cat. 3

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-)
	..... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)