[Letter] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

ʹOvadyah.

Contributor:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Language:

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

ʹOvadyah--Correspondence.

ʹOvadyah.

Hebrew letters.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).

Amram.

Physical Description:

1 folio : torn, cropped at top

Paper 24.8 X 11.4 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 16 (extant).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [12th century-13th century?]

Language Note:

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

The writer leaves the right third of recto blank for the postscript, of which he used for 8 diagonal lines in the opposite direction. On the left edge he cramps exceeding words in a downward diagonal slant.

The identifying details are probably in the missing upper end of the letter. The writer signs at the end עבדו הצעיר עובדיה, he is asking for financial assistance. He states that he as written a request to R. Samuel "the Judge" (perhaps Samuel ben Saʻadia ha-Levi, who served in Maimonides' court in Fustat, and appears in documents ranging between 1165-1203).

Formrs part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 381

IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

249590564