[Letter to Abu'l-ʹIz ben Bishr, Fustat, from his mother] : manuscript
- Creator
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 400
- Form
- books
- personal correspondence
- Date
- between 1100 and 1199
- Language
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subject
- Abu'l-ʻIz ben Bishr, 12th century Correspondence
- Silk industry -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500
- Silk industry
- History
- Geographic Subject
- Egypt
- Extent
- 1 folio : nearly complete; faded, erasures, particularly towards bottom; marginal postscript on recto
- Publisher
- [publisher not identified]
- Notes
- Address on verso
- The addressee has traveled to Fustat. His mother writes to him, mostly blessings and admonitions. She asks him to bring silk threads for her and her sister, as their looms are idle. She mentions her slave girl תופיק (Tawfiq, l.2), and the addressee's brother Joseph, who she pleads be dealt with patience.
- According to the address, Abu'l-ʻIzz can be found in the house of Abu'l-Radha.
- Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3bz61t06
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 400
- 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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