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Halper 382"]},{"label":"Publisher","value":["[publisher not identified]"]},{"label":"Date","value":["10XX"]},{"label":"Item Type","value":["Text"]},{"label":"Physical Format","value":["books","personal correspondence"]},{"label":"Extent","value":["1 folio : tears"]},{"label":"Language","value":["Hebrew","Judeo-Arabic"]},{"label":"Note","value":["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.","Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection."]},{"label":"Relation","value":["Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3pc2tt4c"]},{"label":"Subject","value":["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"]},{"label":"Physical Location","value":["Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 382"]},{"label":"Provenance","value":["Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).","Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. 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