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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25758

Shelfmark:

Halper 410

Title:

Letter to a benefactor

Letter

Author:

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

Shelomoh ben Eliyah ha-Melamed WIKIDATA

Place:

Orient

Date:

1237?

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

nearly complete; marginal postscript on recto; verso is blank

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : nearly complete; marginal postscript on recto; verso is blank

Note:

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

Keyword:

Personal correspondence

Egypt

Correspondence

History

To 1500

Poll tax

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420893503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania