University of Pennsylvania, Halper 358

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS26016

Shelfmark:

Halper 358

Title:

Letter to the Judge Elijah

Letter

Place:

Orient

Date:

1204-1236?

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

cropped/torn at bottom

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : cropped/torn at bottom

Note:

Lacking address.
The upper part of a letter in Judeo-Arabic, to the Judge Elijah, requesting that he collect 30 dirhem for the Abul-Makarim, who owed this to the poll tax. It is suggested that he do so at the congratulation reception of a member of Ben al-Muzaghil family, or at that of Abul-Barakat.
A memorial list of the Ben al-Muzaghil family is found in New York JTSA ENA 3150 fol. 7. The addressee is probably Elijah ben Zekhariah, who often received such requests.
His letters and documents are in Alexandria between 1204-1222, and in Fustat between 1222-1236 (during the reign of Abraham Maimonides as Nagid). See the list of judges, Goitein, A Mediterranean Society vol. II Appendix D, no. 29; A.L. Motzkin, REJ CXXVIII, 1968, pp. 339-348.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Personal correspondence

Egypt

Charity laws and legislation

History

To 1500

Poll tax

Correspondence

Hebrew letters

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420363503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3nk36q0s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania