Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 332: Letter to the three sons of Suleiman ben 'Ali, Fustat Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 332: Letter to the three sons of Suleiman ben 'Ali, Fustat are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Published from this source by Schechter: Saadyana / S. Schechter [ed.]. Cambridge : Deighton and Bell, 1903, no. VII, pp. 24-26; Jewish Quarterly Review, v. 14 (1914) p. 43, 59-61; H Borenstein, Sefer ha-yovel ... li-khevod Naḥum Soḳoloṿ. Warsaw, 1904, p. 81; M. Gil, Be-malkhut Yishmaʾel bi-teḳufat ha-geʾonim / Mosheh Gil. Tel Aviv : Tel Aviv University, 1997, vol. 2, p. 17-19, no. 5; The beginning of the epistle is missing. The fragment opens with a complaint of the Gaon about not hearing from his students for six and a half years, and mention of David ben Abraham, an agent of the Yeshiva (Sura) in Egypt; The rest deals with the two days added by the Gaonate to Kislev and Marḥeshvan in the year 921, a decision rejected by the Erets Israeli Gaon Ben Meir, causing great controversy. The Gaon urges his students in Fustat to accept his decision; The content of the epistle ends after a third of fol. 2 verso. The remainder, under the heading אלענואן ערבי, records the mail information in Arabic characters, including the addressees, Sulieman ben 'Ali ben Suleiman, and his two younger brothers ʹAziz and Salim(?), and the sender (l. 3) Saīd ben Yousef Ras al-Akal; This is not the original epistle, as it is in codex, not mail format. Condition: consecutive, complete; stained. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 332 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420103503681 Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic Letter to the three sons of Suleiman ben 'Ali, Fustat Saʿadia ben Joseph, 882-942 سعيد بن يوسف الفيومى، 882-942 סעדיה בן יוסף, אלפיומי, 882-942 Саадия Бен Йосеф, Гаон, 882-942 Saadiah ben Yosef, 0882-0942, Gaon Saadia Gaon, 882-942 Seʿadyah Gaʾon 882-942 Saadiah ben Yosef gaon 0882-0942 Saadiah ben Yosef (882-942). SaÐadia ben Yosef سعيد الفيومي Sa'adia ben Joseph Seadya ben Yosef, Gaon Saʻadia ben Joseph, rabīns, 882-942 Sa'adja ben Josef, 882-942 الفيومي، أبو سعيد، 882-942 Saʻadiyya ben Yosef Саадия Гаон 882-942 Саадия

Paper

 14.2 X 9 [10.2 X 6.5] cm Columns: 1; lines: 16-17. Hebrew Oriental semi-square sporadic vocalization (Tiberian, Babylonian superlinear) Material applied: black ink

10th century-11th century?

Orient Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library). Sulzberger. Hebrew letters