University of Pennsylvania, Halper 404
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- DS ID:
- DS25805
- Shelfmark:
- Halper 404
- Title:
- Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh ben Seʹadyah
- Place:
- Orient
- Date:
- 1094-1111?].
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Material:
- fragment, only right edge is intact, lower edge appears to be torn along folded line; verso is blank
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 folio : fragment, only right edge is intact, lower edge appears to be torn along folded line; verso is blank
- Note:
- Lines are well spaced, as in the style of official letters.
From a letter to the Nagid Mevorakh ben Saʻadia, who served in this office between 1094-1111. The first three lines are the name of the Nagid with his honorary titles. See M. Cohen: Jewish self-government in medieval Egypt : the origins of the office of head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126 / Mark R. Cohen. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1980, p. 139-148 (n.138).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
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- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3tx35r2s/manifest
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