[Letter to Moses Abu-l'Ḥai, Fustat] : manuscript
- Creator
- ʻAmram ben Yosef ibn al-Nagid, 12th/13th century
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 394
- Form
- books
- personal correspondence
- Date
- between 1100 and 1199
- Language
- Judeo-Arabic
- Hebrew
- Subject
- ʻAmram ben Yosef ibn al-Nagid, 12th/13th century Correspondence
- Yitsḥaḳ ben Ḥayim Nafusi, ha-Melamed
- Mosheh ben Abu'l-Ḥai, 12th/13th century Correspondence
- Hebrew letters
- Extent
- 1 folio : damaged, loss in left edge; folded in mail format
- Publisher
- [publisher not identified]
- Notes
- 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.
- Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Hebrew
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34f1n328
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 394
- 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/
- Resource Type
- Text
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