University of Pennsylvania, Halper 383

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS26178

Shelfmark:

Halper 383

Title:

Letter to Abu Zikhri Yaḥya ben Menasheh

Letter

Author:

Ḥayim ben ʻAmar

Ḥayim ben ʻAmar WIKIDATA

Place:

Alexandria

Alexandria TGN

Date:

1060?

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

fragment, marginalia

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : fragment, marginalia

Note:

Verso bears names and address in mail format.
The upper part of a letter of thanks. The author, a native of Palermo, Sicily is writing from Alexandria to Abu Zikhri Yaḥiya, a banker in Fustat. In the postscript, Ḥaim asks him to send the silver spoon that he had forgotten there.
These same two parties appear together on a list of contributors in New York JTSA ENA 2727, 11. There our writer is also referred to as Abu Zikhri. See also, Goitein, A Mediterranean Society vol. V p. 233.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Personal correspondence

Correspondence

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420613503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3jm24101/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania