Letter: Bodl. MS heb. c 28/19

Letter Bodl. MS heb. c 28/19

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Bodl. MS heb. c 28/19

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Fragment of a letter from Nāshī b. Thābit ha-Kohen to the ḥaver Yosef b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi (Fustat). Dating: ca. 1084-1090 CE. Nāshī b. Thābit sends his gratitude to “the distinguished Rav”, probably Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef, who was behind the assistance received by Nāshī. Nāshī b. Thābit writes that he is “sitting on coals” because he is unable to attend a wedding owing to the blockade of the town in which he lives. (Information from Goitein notes and index card linked below and Zinger, Women, Gender and Law: Marital Disputes According to Documents of the Cairo Geniza (PhD thesis, Princeton, 2014), pp. 408-410.) Arabic trials of the pen on verso.

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Bodleian Library
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Bodl. MS Heb. c 28 (Cat. 2876), fol. 19; Bodl. MS Heb. c 28, f. 19
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Bodl. MS heb. c 28/19 19 recto

19 recto

Bodl. MS heb. c 28/19 19 verso

19 verso
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Bodleian Library, Bodl. MS heb. c 28/19. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/6424/, accessed November 23, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/6424/