[Letter to the Judge Elijah] : manuscript

Timespan:

To 1500

Date:

1204

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:

Eliyah, active 13th century Correspondence; Poll tax -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Poll tax; Charity laws and legislation; History; Hebrew letters; Charity laws and legislation -- Egypt

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Personal correspondence

Physical Description:

1 folio : cropped/torn at bottom

Geographic Subject:

Egypt

Rights:

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

Notes:

Lacking address.; The upper part of a letter in Judeo-Arabic, to the Judge Elijah, requesting that he collect 30 dirhem for the Abul-Makarim, who owed this to the poll tax. It is suggested that he do so at the congratulation reception of a member of Ben al-Muzaghil family, or at that of Abul-Barakat.; A memorial list of the Ben al-Muzaghil family is found in New York JTSA ENA 3150 fol. 7. The addressee is probably Elijah ben Zekhariah, who often received such requests.; His letters and documents are in Alexandria between 1204-1222, and in Fustat between 1222-1236 (during the reign of Abraham Maimonides as Nagid). See the list of judges, Goitein, A Mediterranean Society vol. II Appendix D, no. 29; A.L. Motzkin, REJ CXXVIII, 1968, pp. 339-348.; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 358

Collection:

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