University of Pennsylvania, Halper 394

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DS ID:

DS25773

Shelfmark:

Halper 394

Title:

Letter to Moses Abu-l'Ḥai, Fustat

Letter

Author:

ʻAmram ben Yosef ibn al-Nagid, 12th/13th century

Place:

Alexandria

Alexandria TGN

Date:

late 12th century-early 13th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

damaged, loss in left edge; folded in mail format

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : damaged, loss in left edge; folded in mail format

Note:

Hebrew phrases denoted by a bar above each word; address on verso.
The writer deals with various topics, and urges the addressee to cause Isaac "the teacher" ben Ḥayim "the Scribe" Nafussi (who also appears as an alternate addressee on the verso) to settle the accounts for books given to him for sale. The same Isaac appears in Cambridge TS 24.44, dated 1102.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Personal correspondence

Correspondence

Hebrew letters

Yitsḥaḳ ben Ḥayim Nafusi, ha-Melamed

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420713503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34f1n328/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania