[Letter to Abu Zikhri Yaḥya ben Menasheh] : manuscript

Name:

Ḥayim ben ʻAmar

Date:

1060

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:

Abi Zikhri Yaḥya ben Menasheh Correspondence; Ḥayim ben ʻAmar Correspondence

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Personal correspondence

Physical Description:

1 folio : fragment, marginalia

Rights:

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

Notes:

Verso bears names and address in mail format.; The upper part of a letter of thanks. The author, a native of Palermo, Sicily is writing from Alexandria to Abu Zikhri Yaḥiya, a banker in Fustat. In the postscript, Ḥaim asks him to send the silver spoon that he had forgotten there.; These same two parties appear together on a list of contributors in New York JTSA ENA 2727, 11. There our writer is also referred to as Abu Zikhri. See also, Goitein, A Mediterranean Society vol. V p. 233.; Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 383

Collection:

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