Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420643503681

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Origin

Place

Orient

Notes

• A long letter to a close friend, in florid Hebrew, decorated with many biblical phrases. The names of the writer and addressee are presumably in the missing bottom edge of the verso; At the end of the letter, the author sends regards to the sons of the addressee Natsr and Saʹid. A Judge Nissim is mentioned, who rebukes the author daily for remaining unmarried; The writer explains why he has remained in place. Much of the content deals with a certain notable Ḥaver who was offered to serve as a a judge and a teacher in Alexandria.
   
• Condition: losses from bottom and edges; folded in mail format; some interlinear addenda.
   

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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

• Hebrew letters

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