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[Letter to Abu Zikhri ben Abu'l-Faraj, Fustat and Qalyub] : manuscript

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3mg7gd7m
Title: [Letter to Abu Zikhri ben Abu'l-Faraj, Fustat and Qalyub] : manuscript
Name: Abu Mantsur
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Date: 12XX
Collection: Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Personal correspondence, books
Extent: 1 folio : nearly complete, torn, faded; folded in mail format
Language: Judeo-Arabic
Coverage: To 1500
Note: 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., Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew
Relation: Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3mg7gd7m
Subject: Abu Zikhri ben Eliyahu, 13th century Correspondence, Abu Mantsur Correspondence, Tax collection -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500, Tax collection, History
Geographic Subject: Egypt
Physical Location: Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 398
Provenance: Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)., Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library)., Amram.
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9940420763503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3mg7gd7m/manifest

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25759

Shelfmark:

Halper 398

Title:

Letter to Abu Zikhri ben Abu'l-Faraj, Fustat and Qalyub

Letter

Author:

Abu Mantsur

Place:

Orient

Date:

13th cent.

thirteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Material:

nearly complete, torn, faded; folded in mail format

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : nearly complete, torn, faded; folded in mail format

Note:

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

Keyword:

Personal correspondence

Tax collection

Egypt

History

To 1500

Correspondence

Institutional Record:

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IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3mg7gd7m/manifest

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