[Letter] : manuscript

Name:

ʹOvadyah

Date:

1100s

Language:

Hebrew

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:

ʹOvadyah Correspondence; Hebrew letters

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

personal correspondence; books

Physical Description:

1 folio : torn, cropped at top

Rights:

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

Notes:

The writer leaves the right third of recto blank for the postscript, of which he used for 8 diagonal lines in the opposite direction. On the left edge he cramps exceeding words in a downward diagonal slant.; The identifying details are probably in the missing upper end of the letter. The writer signs at the end עבדו הצעיר עובדיה, he is asking for financial assistance. He states that he as written a request to R. Samuel "the Judge" (perhaps Samuel ben Saʻadia ha-Levi, who served in Maimonides' court in Fustat, and appears in documents ranging between 1165-1203).; Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 381

Collection:

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