Letter: Bodl. MS heb. b 13/52

Letter Bodl. MS heb. b 13/52

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Bodl. MS heb. b 13/52

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Family letter from Natan b. Yehuda (Alexandria, ca. 1160) to Moshe b. Ṣemaḥ and his brother (Fustat), the writer’s cousins-in-law. Natan b. Yehuda reports that everyone in the house was ill because of a great epidemic of sweating sickness (wakham) in Alexandria. He praises the brothers for their munificence but also politely reminds them that it was time for them to marry and wishes that their mother may see their “joy”. (Information from Goitein notes and index card linked below and from Goitein, MedSoc, Vol. 3, p. 61 and p. 440n61 and Vol. 5, p. 113.)

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Bodleian Library
Historical shelfmarks
Bodl. MS Heb. b 13 (Cat. 2834), f. 52; Bodl. MS Heb. b 13, fol. 52
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Bodl. MS heb. b 13/52 52 recto

52 recto

Bodl. MS heb. b 13/52 52 verso

52 verso
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Bodleian Library, Bodl. MS heb. b 13/52. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/6403/, accessed November 27, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/6403/