[Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh ben Seʹadyah] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Mevorakh ben Saadiah, active 11th century--Correspondence.

Mevorakh ben Saadiah.

Jews--Egypt--Politics and government.

Jews.

Hebrew letters.

Politics and government.

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 : fragment, only right edge is intact, lower edge appears to be torn along folded line; verso is blank

Paper 7.6 X 17.1 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 6 extant.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [1094-1111?].

Language Note:

Hebrew. Hebrew

Notes:

Lines are well spaced, as in the style of official letters.

From a letter to the Nagid Mevorakh ben Saʻadia, who served in this office between 1094-1111. The first three lines are the name of the Nagid with his honorary titles. See M. Cohen: Jewish self-government in medieval Egypt : the origins of the office of head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126 / Mark R. Cohen. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1980, p. 139-148 (n.138).

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 404

IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

249591189