[Letter to Abu Zikhri ben Abu'l-Faraj, Fustat and Qalyub] : manuscript
- Creator
- Abu Mantsur
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 398
- Form
- books
- personal correspondence
- Date
- between 1200 and 1299
- Language
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subject
- Abu Zikhri ben Eliyahu, 13th century Correspondence
- Abu Mantsur Correspondence
- Tax collection -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500
- Tax collection
- History
- Geographic Subject
- Egypt
- Extent
- 1 folio : nearly complete, torn, faded; folded in mail format
- Publisher
- [publisher not identified]
- Notes
- Verso contains address, in Arabic characters.
- The addressee may be identified as the son of the judge Elijah ben Zechariah (related to Genizah documents dated between 1222-1236, see above 358, and in the list of judges assembled by S.D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. II Appendix D, no. 29).
- See Goitein, ibid. vol. II p. 380. Documents relating to Elijah were collected by Aryeh Leo Motzkin, Revue des études juives, v. 128 (1969), p. 339-348.
- A letter from a relative, perhaps his brother in law, or paternal cousin, dealing with various matters, such as debts to the tax collectors (l. 17). The writer complains that the addressee has been absent too long from his wife and mother. The date, added to the last line, is the 30th of the ʻOmer (15 Iyar), but no year is provided.
- Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 398
- 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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