Letter: p. Heid. Hebr. 27

Letter p. Heid. Hebr. 27

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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.