[Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh ben Seʹadyah] : manuscript

Date:

1094

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:

Mevorakh ben Saadiah, active 11th century Correspondence; Jews -- Egypt -- Politics and government; Hebrew letters; Jews; Politics and government

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Personal correspondence; books

Physical Description:

1 folio : fragment, only right edge is intact, lower edge appears to be torn along folded line; verso is blank

Geographic Subject:

Egypt

Rights:

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

Notes:

Lines are well spaced, as in the style of official letters.; From a letter to the Nagid Mevorakh ben Saʻadia, who served in this office between 1094-1111. The first three lines are the name of the Nagid with his honorary titles. See M. Cohen: Jewish self-government in medieval Egypt : the origins of the office of head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126 / Mark R. Cohen. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1980, p. 139-148 (n.138).; Hebrew. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 404

Collection:

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