[Letter to Abu'l-ʹIz ben Bishr, Fustat, from his mother] : manuscript

Name:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 400

Timespan:

To 1500

Date:

1100s

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

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:

Abu'l-ʻIz ben Bishr, 12th century Correspondence; Silk industry -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Silk industry; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books; personal correspondence

Physical Description:

1 folio : nearly complete; faded, erasures, particularly towards bottom; marginal postscript on recto

Geographic Subject:

Egypt

Rights:

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

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.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 400