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Title

Authors

• Abraham ben Nathan 11th/12th cent.

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• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420603503681

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Origin

Place

al-Maḥalla

Notes

• 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 T-S NS J 131 (from the Nagid Mevorakh ben Sa'adia 1094-1111); Oxford Bodleian Heb. d. 68 (Cowely 2878) fol. 29; Cambridge T-S 13J 15 fol. 24 (from Solomon ben Yeshua, the same hand as the previous); T-S 10J 11 fol. 16 (there: b. Nathaniel); T-S NS J 24 (from his brother Araḥ); T-S 18J 4 fol. 2; T-S 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.
   
• Condition: tears.
   

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Decoration

Black ink

Script

Subjects topical

• Hebrew letters

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