[Letter to Abraham ben Nathan, "the Seventh"] : manuscript

Date:

1000s

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Abraham ben Natan, 11th-12th century Correspondence; ʹOvadyah ben Shemaryah, 11th-12th century Correspondence; Avraham ben Shemaryah, 11th-12th century Correspondence; Yefet ben Shemaryah, 11th-12th century Correspondence; Hebrew letters; Laudatory poetry, Hebrew

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Personal correspondence

Physical Description:

1 folio : tears

Rights:

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

Notes:

Folded and addressed in mail format.; The letter opens with a paragraph of at least 20 lines of panegyric blessings in Hebrew. The 18 remaining lines are the content of the letter in Judeo-Arabic, which is also laden with honorific terms.; The writers express their longing for Abraham yet decline his invitation to visit him in Syria (אלשאם), as they will be staying in al-Maḥalla (in the central Nile delta), with friends from Aleppo for another two months.; The addressee, referred to as חמדת הישיבות, also received the letters in Cambridge TS NS J 131 (from the Nagid Mevorakh ben Saʻadia 1094-1111); Oxford Bodleian Heb. d. 68 (Cowely 2878) fol. 29; Cambridge TS 13J 15 fol. 24 (from Solomon ben Yeshua, the same hand as the previous); TS 10J 11 fol. 16 (there: b. Nathaniel); TS NS J 24 (from his brother Araḥ); TS 18J 4 fol. 2; TS 13J 15 fol. 24.; He appears in a list of dignitaries in British Library Or. 5535 (Margoliouth, vol. III no. 1131). A biographical sketch of him was assembled by M. Cohen, Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt, 1980, pp. 130-131.; Verso contains the name of the addressee, and the names of the writers, Obadiah, Abraham and Japheth the sons of Shemaryah. This is followed by a standard Arabic salutation in Arabic characters.; Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew; Hebrew. Oriental semi-square hand in black ink.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 382

Collection:

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