[Letter to a benefactor] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shelomoh ben Eliyah, ha-Melamed, active 13th century.

Contributor:

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

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Shelomoh ben Eliyah, ha-Melamed, active 13th century--Correspondence.

Shelomoh ben Eliyah.

Poll tax--Egypt--History--To 1500.

Poll tax.

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; marginal postscript on recto; verso is blank

Paper 15.3 X 13.7 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: lines: 13 (recto).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [1237?]

Language Note:

Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

No address (personally hand-delivered?).

The writer, a teacher is asking for an advance on his salary to enable him to pay his poll tax. He has been sick and had to consume drugs and hens. In the marginal postscript he apologizes for not writing in a more formal way, for lack of knowledge.

Solomon is the son of the judge Elijah ben Zechariah, related to Genizah documents dated between 1222-1236, see, in the list of judges assembled by S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. II Appendix D, no. 29.

Documents relating to Elijah were collected by Aryeh Leo Motzkin, Revue des études juives, v. 128 (1969) p. 339-348. The blessing [ס[ופיה] ט[ב appears here, indicating that this is written after his death.

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 410

IMHM, no. F38400

Publications about:

Published in Hebrew, with introduction and notes, by Goitein: Sidre ḥinukh bi-yeme ha-Geʾonim u-vet ha-Rambam : Meḳorot ha-ḥadashim / S.D. Goitein. Jerusalem : Mekhon Ben-Tsevi, 1962, p. 107-108.

OCLC:

1366217959