Letter: F 1908.44XX

Letter F 1908.44XX

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Shelfmark
F 1908.44XX
Primary Language
Hebrew

Description

Letter (or rather three letters) from Mustaʿrib sages, in Safed, to the Nagid Yiṣḥaq Sholal, in Fustat. Dating: 1510 CE, based on the assessment of Avraham David. These letters complain of the conduct of a certain R. Moshe, the dayyān of Safed in Galilee. If we are to believe the writers, he was a rather unusually vainglorious, selfish and unscrupulous person, guilty of many acts of tyranny, misappropriation and corruption, and responsible for the perennial Safed Meat Scandal." The paper apparently bears a watermark "of the familiar hand-and-star variety, employed by many manufacturers in France, Switzerland, and Sicily, between 1490 and 1590 CE." Information from Gottheil-Worrell, Fragments from the Cairo Genizah, p. 247.

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Collection
Freer Gallery of Art, Athur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Historical shelfmarks
Gottheil-Worrell 50; Gottheil-Worrell L
Input date
In PGP since 2020
Freer Gallery of Art, Athur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, F 1908.44XX. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/29935/, accessed November 23, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/29935/