[Epistle to Abraham ben Sahlan, Fustat] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solomon ben Judah, -1051.

Contributor:

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

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Avraham ben Sahlan, -1030.

Avraham ben Sahlan.

Daṿid ben Yitsḥaḳ, ha-Leṿi. 11th century.

Daṿid ben Yitsḥaḳ.

Efraim ben Shemarya, approximately 980-approximately 1060.

Efraim ben Shemarya.

Hebrew letters.

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 : losses from top and bottom; verso is blank

Paper 26.6 X 18.2 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: in mail format columns: 1 lines: 29.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

[Jerusalem], [publisher not identified], [1028]

Language Note:

Hebrew. Hebrew

Notes:

The address is on the verso of the part that is in Cambridge, in Arabic characters.

The author served as the Gaon of the Yeshiva of Erets Israel between 1025-1051. See Mann ibid. vol. I pp. 75-152. 123 Genizah documents from Solomon have been collected and published by M. Gil: Erets Yiśraʾel ba-teḳufat ha-Muslemit ha-rishonah (534-1099) / Moshe Gil. Tel Aviv : University of Tel Aviv, 1983, v. 2, p. 91-299 (nos. 53-175).

Solomon addresses his benefactors in Fustat, involving much financial and political conflict.

Among the Fustat leaders, famous in Genizah literature, who have donated to the Yeshivah are Ephraim ha-Ḥaver (ben Shemarya, l. 10) leader of the Erets Israeli community between 1020-1047, the addressee, leader of the Baylonian community until 1030, and "the Minister" David (ha-Levi ben Isaac, l. 11), the Karaite Rais al-Yahud.

A biography of the addressee has been sketched by E. Bareqet, Shafrir Mitsraim, 1995 pp. 165-172 (= Fustat on the Nile, Leiden, 1999, pp. 222-233). In the address here he is referred to as Ibn Sunbat. See, in the list of judges assembled by S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society vol. II Appendix D, no. 6.

The top 30 cm. missing from this long letter (33 lines), is Cambridge TS 16.275, which was published by Mann, The Jews of Egypt, vo. 2, p. 141-142 (see ibid. vol. I pp. 122-123); bottom of letter has not been found.

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 412

IMHM, no. F38400

Publications about:

Published by Mann, ibid. 1970, pp. 445-447. Adjoined to the above fragment, Gil, ibid. pp. 132-135 (no. 76).

OCLC:

249591220