JORULLO, Ho-r(Yo'ly6. A volcanic mountain in the State of Michoacan, Mexico, situated 70 miles southwest of Morelia. the capital of the State. It is of comparatively recent origin, having risen from the surrounding plain as a result of the earthquake of September 29. 1759. Besides Jorullo, there sprang up five other vol canic cones and a large number of small cones. which were still active at the time of the visit of Humboldt in 1803. The surrounding region is covered with lava-fields and scattered volcanic rocks, showing evidence of the extent of the erup tion. and near the cone are a number of hot springs. The height of Jorullo above the sea is 4265 feet; it is now dormant.
JOSE, RO-sa'. POEMA DE (Sp., poem of Jo seph). A Spanish poem belonging to the class of documents called aljamiallos, i.e. works written in the Spanish language, but with Arabic char acters. Through a hieratical impulse, or merely as a result of a rooted attachment to the alpha betical signs of their ancestral speech, certain of the Moors, when composing in Spanish. adapted the Arabic signs to the purpose, and avoided the use of the Roman characters. The
Jose is the most interesting work of the kind. It seems to have been written in the sixteenth century, and possibly on Aragonese territory. if we may judge by some dialect forms found in it. It tells the story of the selling of Joseph by his brethren and of his life in Egypt. intermingling with the narrative elements of Mohammedan tra dition. In form it is modeled upon the old Spanish poems, i.e. it is in quatrains of twel•e-syllahled or fourteen-syllabled lines, with a single rhyme in the quatrain. From the phonetic point of view this work. like others of its kind, has a certain value, since the adaptation of the Arabic alphabet to Spanish sounds affords a possible clew to the real nature of those sounds at the time in ques tion. Consult Morf's ed. of the Jose (Leipzig. 1883) : the Litteraturblatt fiir germanischc and romaniSPhe Philologie, vol. xi.. pp. 3411'.; Ford. "The Old Spanish Sibilant-," in Harvard Univer sity studies and Notes in Philology and Literature (Boston, 1900) ; Menendez Pidal, Puma de Yueuf (Madrid, 1902).