Letter: p. Heid. Hebr. 27

Letter p. Heid. Hebr. 27

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p. Heid. Hebr. 27
Primary Languages
Arabic
Hebrew

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Letter in calligraphic Arabic script, with some Hebrew mixed in. Writer and addressee are unknown. The writer chastises the addressee at length, quoting Quran 12:51 along the way. He is pained by what happened with Abū Saʿīd. Mentions ha-Rav (هراب) Moshe in the margin. On verso, somebody has copied out love poetry by Yehuda ha-Levi. There is an edition and detailed discussion by Werner Diem.

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Beeghly Library, University of Heidelberg
Input date
In PGP since 2019
Beeghly Library, University of Heidelberg, p. Heid. Hebr. 27. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/26596/, accessed November 27, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/26596/