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• Lacking address; The upper part of a letter in Judeo-Arabic, to the Judge Elijah, requesting that he collect 30 dirhem for the Abul-Makarim, who owed this to the poll tax. It is suggested that he do so at the congratulation reception of a member of Ben al-Muzaghil family, or at that of Abul-Barakat; A memorial list of the Ben al-Muzaghil family is found in New York JTSA ENA 3150 fol. 7. The addressee is probably Elijah ben Zekhariah, who often received such requests; His letters and documents are in Alexandria between 1204-1222, and in Fustat between 1222-1236 (during the reign of Abraham Maimonides as Nagid). See the list of judges, Goitein, A Mediterranean Society vol. II Appendix D, no. 29; A.L. Motzkin, REJ CXXVIII, 1968, pp. 339-348.
   
• Condition: cropped/torn at bottom.
   

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• Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
   
• Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
   
• Amram.
   

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• Poll tax , Egypt History , To 1500

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