[Letter to Daṿid ha-Leṿi ben Yitsḥaḳ] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Panegyric poem in honor of David ha-Levi ben Isaac.

Name:

Daṿid ben Shekhanya, active 11th century

Date:

1013

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Amram.

Subject:

Daṿid ben Shekhanya, active 11th century Correspondence; David ben Yitsḥaḳ, ha-Leṿi, 11th century Poetry; Karaites; Hebrew letters; Laudatory poetry, Hebrew

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Personal correspondence; Poetry; books

Physical Description:

1 folio : complete; faded, erasures; verso is blank

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Written as prose; no graphic division of the poetic verses; first half is vocalized; no other signs that might indicate that this is an article of mail.; All of the letter is a laudatory poem in honor of David ha-Leṿi, an Elder of the Karaites in Fustat, and a protector of the Jews in the court of the Caliph. Biographical notes on David ha-Levi were collected by Samuel Miklos Stern, Revue des études juives, v. 128 (1969), p. 209-210.; The author served as the court scribe and clerk under Ephraim ben Shemaryah, in the court of the Erets Israeli Rabbanite Jews of Fustat (whose synagogue housed the Genizah), and appears on court documents dated 1020-1024 (see E. Bareqet, Shafrir Mitsraim, 1995, p. 122-123; Fustat on the Nile, Leiden, 1999, pp. 161-162). The verses rhyme in ים-.; Hebrew. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 401

Collection:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)