[Letter to Abu Zikhri Yaḥya ben Menasheh] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ḥayim ben ʻAmar.

Contributor:

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

Language:

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Abi Zikhri Yaḥya ben Menasheh--Correspondence.

Ḥayim ben ʻAmar--Correspondence.

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 : fragment, marginalia

Paper 15.5 X 18.4 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 11 (recto) (partially extant).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

[Alexandria], [publisher not identified], [1060?]

Language Note:

Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Hebrew

Notes:

Verso bears names and address in mail format.

The upper part of a letter of thanks. The author, a native of Palermo, Sicily is writing from Alexandria to Abu Zikhri Yaḥiya, a banker in Fustat. In the postscript, Ḥaim asks him to send the silver spoon that he had forgotten there.

These same two parties appear together on a list of contributors in New York JTSA ENA 2727, 11. There our writer is also referred to as Abu Zikhri. See also, Goitein, A Mediterranean Society vol. V p. 233.

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 384

IMHM, no. F38400

Publications about:

Published, with translation and notes, by M. Gil, Be-Malkhut Yishmaʹel bi-teḳufat ha-geʾonin / Moshe Gil. Tel Aviv : University of Tel Aviv, 1997, vol. IV, p. 163-165, no. 652. Described ibid. vol. I p. 583. Our Ḥaim appears in numerous documents published by Gil (ibid. vol. IV p. 853) and M. Ben-Sassoon: Yehude Sitsilyah, 825-1068 / Menahem Ben-Sasson. Jerusalem : Mekhon Ben-Tsevi, 1991, p. 699.

OCLC:

249590517