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• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940421003503681

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Origin

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Fustat

Notes

• No signature or address, as this was probably delivered personally, or attached to another document; A note to the judge ʻAli, referred to here as Nazir ha-maśkilim. ("Crown of the Enlightened"). This title is bestowed on ʻAli ha-Leṿi ben Netanʾel of the early 12th century. See, in the list of judges assembled by S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society vol. II Appendix D, no. 16; Kiryat Sefer v. 41 (1965-1966), p. 267, note 19; He served in the court of the Erets Israeli Community in Fustat in 1133. Here he is requested to transmit an enclosed dirahm to a certain ibn Simon, and to endorse a bill of release issued by a judge in Minyat Zifta.
   
• Condition: losses along left edge; verso is blank.
   

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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

• Judeo-Arabic letters

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