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Title

Authors

• Daṿid ben Shekhanya,11th cent.

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420803503681

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Fustat

Notes

• Written as prose; no graphic division of the poetic verses; first half is vocalized; no other signs that might indicate that this is an article of mail; All of the letter is a laudatory poem in honor of David ha-Leṿi, an Elder of the Karaites in Fustat, and a protector of the Jews in the court of the Caliph. Biographical notes on David ha-Levi were collected by Samuel Miklos Stern, Revue des études juives, v. 128 (1969), p. 209-210; The author served as the court scribe and clerk under Ephraim ben Shemaryah, in the court of the Erets Israeli Rabbanite Jews of Fustat (whose synagogue housed the Genizah), and appears on court documents dated 1020-1024 (see E. Bareqet, Shafrir Mitsraim, 1995, p. 122-123; Fustat on the Nile, Leiden, 1999, pp. 161-162). The verses rhyme in ים-.
   
• Condition: complete; faded, erasures; verso is blank.
   

Extent

Support

Layout

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

• Karaites

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