[Letter to Abu Zikhri ben Abu'l-Faraj, Fustat and Qalyub] : manuscript

Name:

Abu Mantsur

Timespan:

To 1500

Date:

1200s

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 Zikhri ben Eliyahu, 13th century Correspondence; Abu Mantsur Correspondence; Tax collection -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Tax collection; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

personal correspondence; books

Physical Description:

1 folio : nearly complete, torn, faded; folded in mail format

Geographic Subject:

Egypt

Rights:

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

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

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 398

Collection:

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