[Memorial lists of Jewish leaders in Erets Israel and Fustat] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Dukhran tab

Name:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 460

Date:

1100s

Language:

Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Solomon ben Judah, -1051; Matsliaḥ, ha-Kohen, 12th century; Mevorakh ben Saadiah, active 11th century; Geonim -- Registers; Nagid; Jewish statesmen -- Egypt -- Cairo -- Fusṭāṭ -- Registers; Talmudic academies -- Jerusalem; Talmudic academies -- Egypt -- Cairo -- Fusṭāṭ; Talmudic academies; Jewish statesmen; Geonim

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books; registers (lists)

Physical Description:

2 folio (bifolium): losses in upper corners, faded, mostly illegible; conservation along seam and edges

Geographic Subject:

Egypt -- Cairo -- Fusṭāṭ

Rights:

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

Notes:

Contains five lists. 1. ll. 1-16: The Gaonim of the Yeshivah in Jerusalem (and later in exile), from 1046 to about 1138, that is the dynasty from Solomon ha-Kohen to Matsliaḥ ha-Kohen.; 2. l. 17 - l. 9: The Gaonim of the Yeshivah in Fustat.; 3. l. 10 - l. 10: The Dynasty of Nagidim of Egypt. The first legible name in this line is that of Mevorakh ben Saʻadia (1094-1111). The list ends with Nethaniel, who served immediately before Maimonides. See Mann: The The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine under the Fāṭimid caliphs / Jacob Mann. London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1920, v. 2, p. 249-250; M. Cohen: Jewish self-government in medieval Egypt : the origins of the office of head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126 / Marc R. Cohen. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1980, p.132-156.; 4. ll. 11-20: The list of a family of ha-Khamim. Mostly illegible.; 5. l. 21- 11: Leaders of the Fustat community; concluded with a prayer for the Community, of which one line is extant.; Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 460