[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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