Letter: ENA 3975.1

Letter ENA 3975.1

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Shelfmark
ENA 3975.1
Document Date
Primary Language
Arabic

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Description

Letter in Arabic and Hebrew script dated 438 AH (1046/1047 CE). The opening politesse consists of many lines in Arabic script in a calligraphic chancery hand with wide line-spacing. When the letter switches to Arabic script, it is to discuss a matter concerning some enemies of the writer and addressee. Meira Polliack, "Dual Script Mixed Code Literary Sources from the Cairo Genizah," Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 7 (2019): 340-41 contains a careless edition of the Arabic and errors in the Judaeo-Arabic, the readings in PGP edition are preferable.

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Collection
Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA 3975, f. 1; ENA 3975, fol. 1
Input date
In PGP since 2017
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Transcription
Translation

ENA 3975.1 1

1

ENA 3975.1 2

2
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Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA 3975.1. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/11703/, accessed December 21, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/11703/