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Or 5529

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032-003410451
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Or 5529
Title:
Fragment of a letter by Tsadoḳ ha-Kohen (genizah fragment)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
Fragment of a folio
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1056
End Date:
1056
Date Range:
1056
Calendar:
Hurban
Era:
CE
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Names:
Tsadoḳ ben Eliyahu, ha-Kohen gaʾon
צדוק בן אליהו, הכהן גאון
TEI:

Or 5529

Fragment of a letter by Tsadoḳ ha-Kohen (genizah fragment)

Contents

Letter from Tsadoḳ ha-Kohen ben Eliyahu, Jerusalem, probably to his brother Evyatar in Fustat, June 1056.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-1v
Author: צדוק בן אליהו, הכהן גאון Tsadoḳ ben Eliyahu, ha-Kohen gaʾon
Title: Letter

The letter written partly in verse and partly in prose, the former being provided with an interesting form of superlinear punctuation.

Each line of verse consists of two hemistichs, with apparently a continuous rhyme of the second verse-halves.

The letter is on some business transactions.

Colophon: נכתב ביום ו' י"ג לחודש תמוז ש' תתקפ"ז לחרבן הבית. י[בנ]ה במהרה אמן

Physical Description

Form: leaf
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: Fragment of a folio
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 190 mm.

Condition

The upper portion is lost, and the left-hand upper part of the preserved piece is much mutilated.

Tears, holes, usage stains.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew square script of the 11th century, partial superlinear (Babylonian) vocalisation.

Binding

Kept between glass plates.

History

Origin: 1056

Provenance and Acquisition

Cairo Genizah

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the TEI records received from the Friedberg Genizah Project and Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1965). For more a detailed record, consult the Friedberg Genizah Project catalogue (https://fjms.genizah.org/).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5529 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 1127.
    גיל, משה: ארץ ישראל בתקופה המוסלמית הראשונה (1099-634) כרך: 3.תשמ"ג, 33-35.
    גיל, משה: ארץ ישראל בתקופה המוסלמית הראשונה (1099-634) כרך: 1. תשמ"ג, pp. 201, 224, 492, 558, 605.
    היישוב בארץ-ישראל בראשית האיסלאם ובתקופת הצלבנים, לאור כתבי הגניזה, ער' שלמה דב גויטין (ירושלים: יד יצחק בן-צבי, 1989), 34.
    Goitein, S. D., 'Ha-Rav: an Obscure Chapter in the History of the Palestinian Gaonate with an Appendix: a Letter by 'the Daughter of the Head of the Yeshiva', Tarbiz 45 (1975/6), pp. 64-75, esp. p. 66.
    Marmorstein, Abraham, 'Einige vorlaufige Bemerkungen uber Genizafragment' Zeitschrift fur Hebraische Bibliographie 16//3 (1913), pp. 91-93.
    Marmorstein, Abraham, 'Über das Gaonat in Palästina' Zeitschrift der Deutschen morgenlandischen Gesellschaft 67 (1913), pp. 635-644.
    Friedman, M. A., Jewish Marriage in Palestine. A Cairo Geniza Study. vol. 1 (Tel-Aviv and New York: Tel-Aviv University, 1980) p. 106 n28.
    Shaked, Shaul, A tentative bibliography of Geniza documents (Paris and the Hague, 1964), p. 172.
    Goiten, Shelomo Dov, A Mediterranean society: the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza vol. 3 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978), pp. 9 and 428 n46.
    Mann, Jacob, The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine under the Fatimid Caliphs (Oxford, 1920-1922), p. 107.

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