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[Letter to Abu Zikhri ben Abu'l-Faraj, Fustat and Qalyub] : manuscript.
Library at the Katz Center - Genizah Fragments Halper 398
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abu Mantsur.
- Language:
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Abu Zikhri ben Eliyahu, 13th century--Correspondence.
- Abu Mantsur--Correspondence.
- Tax collection--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Tax collection.
- History.
- Egypt.
- 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 : nearly complete, torn, faded; folded in mail format
- Paper 15.8 X 12.7 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: in mail format; lines are cramped, leaving ample lower margin columns: lines: 27.
- Contained In:
- Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Place of Publication:
- [Orient], [publisher not identified], [13th cent.]
- Language Note:
- Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew
- Notes:
- Verso contains address, in Arabic characters.
- The addressee may be identified as the son of the judge Elijah ben Zechariah (related to Genizah documents dated between 1222-1236, see above 358, and in the list of judges assembled by S.D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. II Appendix D, no. 29).
- See Goitein, ibid. vol. II p. 380. Documents relating to Elijah were collected by Aryeh Leo Motzkin, Revue des études juives, v. 128 (1969), p. 339-348.
- A letter from a relative, perhaps his brother in law, or paternal cousin, dealing with various matters, such as debts to the tax collectors (l. 17). The writer complains that the addressee has been absent too long from his wife and mother. The date, added to the last line, is the 30th of the ʻOmer (15 Iyar), but no year is provided.
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Cited in:
- Halper, no. 398
- IMHM, no. F38400
- Publications about:
- Partially published (in English translation), Goitein, ibid. vol. III pp. 263-264.
- OCLC:
- 249591374
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