Halper 410 Letter to a benefactor
Title
Letter to a benefactorAuthors
- Eliyah ben Shelomoh, 13th cent.
Call number
Halper 410(Philadelphia, United States, University of Pennsylvania, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Cairo Genizah Collection)
Alternate identifiers
Publisher
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies LibraryLanguage
Judeo-ArabicOrigin
1237?
- Place
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Orient
Notes
- No address (personally hand-delivered?); The writer, a teacher is asking for an advance on his salary to enable him to pay his poll tax. He has been sick and had to consume drugs and hens. In the marginal postscript he apologizes for not writing in a more formal way, for lack of knowledge; Solomon is the son of the judge Elijah ben Zechariah, related to Genizah documents dated between 1222-1236, see, in the list of judges assembled by S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. II Appendix D, no. 29; Documents relating to Elijah were collected by Aryeh Leo Motzkin, Revue des études juives, v. 128 (1969) p. 339-348. The blessing [ס[ופיה] ט[ב appears here, indicating that this is written after his death.
- Condition: nearly complete; marginal postscript on recto; verso is blank.
Extent
15.3 X 13.7 cmSupport
PaperLayout
Decoration
Black ink
Script
Provenance
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
- Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
- Amram.
Subjects topical
- Poll tax , History , To 1500 , Egypt
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