[Letter] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Elhanan ben Shemariah, -1026.

Elhanan ben Shemariah.

Genre:

Biographies.

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 : damaged, torn, faded; verso is blank

Paper 27.9 X 18.5 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 22.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [994-1026?]

Language Note:

Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

First line of recto bears standard بسملله ("Bismallah") salutation, in Arabic characters.

There is no address or signature, nor are there folds, possibly indicating that this is not an original piece of mail, but a copy. In the last line there is mention of Abu al-Bishr, possibly referring to Joseph ibn Awkal.

Elḥanan (b. Shemarya)[...]ראש ה (lacuna: "Rosh ha[-Seder?]")is mentioned (l. 16). He served as the head of the Babylonian Community in Fustat between 994-1026. See Mann: The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine under the Fātimids / Jacob Mann. London : Oxford University Press, 1920, v. 1, p. 34-39; Elinoar Bareḳet: Shafrir Mitsraim / Elinoar Bareqet. Tel-Aviv : ha- Makhon le-ḥeḳer ha-tefutsot, Universiṭat Tel-Aviv, 1995. pp. 153-164 (Fustat on the Nile, Leiden, 1999, pp. 205-222).

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 396

IMHM, no. F38400

Publications about:

Published, with translation and notes, by M. Gil: Be-malkhut Yishmaʹel bi-teḳufat ha-Geʾonim / Moshe Gil. Tel Aviv : Tel Aviv University, 1997, vol. 2, p. 501-603 (no. 205).

OCLC:

249591110