Literary text: AIU IV.C.486

Literary text AIU IV.C.486

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AIU IV.C.486
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S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India traders of the middle ages : documents from the Cairo Geniza : India book (2008), vol. 2.
S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions.
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Hebrew

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AIU IV C 486
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In PGP since 2024

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One of two copies of a poem by Avraham ben Yiju, praising Maḍmūn and cursing his enemies. Aden. T-S 8J16.23 (PGPID 5403) is written in the hand of Ben Yiju himself, while this fragment is written in the calligraphic, square hand of a scribe. The poet signs his name in an acrostic: ABRHM ḤZQ YJW. The poem is about how Maḍmūn's enemies requited his kindness with treachery. But these enemies were ultimately compelled to acknowledge Maḍmūn's titles Sar and Nagid. Dating: ca. 1140–44 CE. (Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Book II.)

https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/39481/