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• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420833503681

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Orient

Notes

• Lines are well spaced, as in the style of official letters; From a letter to the Nagid Mevorakh ben Sa'adia, who served in this office between 1094-1111. The first three lines are the name of the Nagid with his honorary titles. See M. Cohen: Jewish self-government in medieval Egypt : the origins of the office of head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126 / Mark R. Cohen. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1980, p. 139-148 (n.138).
   
• Condition: fragment, only right edge is intact, lower edge appears to be torn along fold line; verso is blank.
   

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Black ink

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Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Jews , Politics and government. , Egypt

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