Jewish Theological Seminary of America, ENA 3616.9

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ENA 3616.9

Jewish Theological Seminary of America (New York, USA)

Document

Recto: Letter from the Qaraite Mahbub b. Nissim, Ramla, to Abu al-Faraj in Fustat.

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Content Description

Letter

recto

[...]

10. [...] וכאן מעי רג֗ל מן אהל

11. פאס פזת לצאחב אלמרכב שכארה רקוק ואלג֗ראב מתאע אלמא

[...]

recto

[...]

10. [...] and with me was a man from the people of

11. Fez and I added (gave) to the owner of the ship a bundle of parchment sheets and a bag for the path (journey) on the water

[...]

11th Century CE

Ramla

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Fragment of a leaf/sheet

Bottom right corner is missing.

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Paper

Brown-Grey

No pricking

No ruling

Hebrew

1

No vowels or accents

Dots above letters

Unbound

Bibliography


  • Gil, Moshe, 1983, Palestine During the First Muslim Period (634-1099) (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, vol. 2, pp. 518-520.

  • Friedman, Mordechai Akiva, 2016, A Dictionary of Medieval Judeo-Arabic in the India Book Letters from the Geniza and in Other Texts (in Hebrew), Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, p. 16; 660.

  • Link to the shelfmark entry in the Princeton Genizah Project database: ENA 3616.9

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Blanca Villuendas Sabaté, Fabio Ioppolo, 'Jewish Theological Seminary of America, ENA 3616.9', in: Jewish Book Culture Database, General Editors: Ronny Vollandt and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger. Consulted online at https://jewishbookculture.com/data/items/294/ on 2025-04-04.