[Letter to Nahray ben Nissim, Fustat] : manuscript

Name:

Mosheh ben Yaʹaḳov, 11th century; Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 411

Date:

1053

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:

Mosheh ben Yaʹaḳov, 11th century Correspondence; Nahray ben Nissim, 1025-1097 Correspondence; Nahray ben Nissim, 1025-1097

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books; personal correspondence

Physical Description:

1 folio : complete; addressed on verso

Geographic Subject:

Temple Mount (Jerusalem)

Rights:

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

Notes:

Recto has 2 lines of marginal postscript; in address on verso, Fustat appears, in Arabic characters.; The writer inquires about the transfer of money from Fustat to Jerusalem, and about a shipment of copper. He reports of the difficulty of life in Jerusalem, yet revels about her sanctity.; He refers to Jerusalem as אלוטן אלמקדס and the Temple Mount אלמוצׄע אלמקדס. The date mentioned is Thurs. 18 Iyar, of a leap year (l. 15). In the marginal postscript he sends regards on behalf of two prominent Ḥaverim of the Jerusalem Yeshivah, Abraham (b. ʻAmram) and Shemʻaya (ben Jeshuah, of Gaonic lineage).; Both are figures that appear often in Genizah documents (See Gil, ibid. index).; The addressee is the recipient of hundreds of Genizah letters, analyzed in the Doctoral Dissertation of Murad A. Michael: Arkhiyono shel Nahrai ben Nisim : baʹal ʹaśaḳim ṿe-ish tsibur be-Mitsrayim ba-meʾah ha-aḥat ʹeśreh. Jerusalem : Hebrew University, 1963. The writer, Moses, is married to Nahray's sister.; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 411