Letter

Name: Letter
Author: Maḵlūf b. Mūsā al-Nafūsī

İsim	Letter
Yazar	Maḵlūf b. Mūsā al-Nafūsī
Konu	Cairo Genizah
Tür	Belge
Dil	ara,heb,jrb
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Evet
Sayfa Sayısı	2
Fiziksel Boyutlar	1 leaf. Leaf height: 52.7 cm, width: 8.9 cm.
Kütüphane:	Cambridge Dijital Kütüphanesi
Kayıt Numarası	MS-TS-00024-00078
Lokasyon	Cambridge University Library — T-S 24.78
Tarih	1131 CE-1131-12-31-1131-01-01
Notlar	Letter from the merchant Maḵlūf b. Mūsā al-Nafūsī, the ‘overseer of the Sultan’s ships’, to an influential friend. Maḵlūf had left Alexandria for Tunisia, fleeing ‘the plundering monk’, the notorious finance minister Abū Najāḥ. Maḵlūf arrived in Alexandria in the spring following Abū Najāḥ’s death, travelled to Tunisia in the summer of 1130 CE, and wrote the letter the following summer (1131 CE). Much of the letter details the behaviour of his profligate and disreputable son. All Maḵlūf’s attempts to correct him (presenting him to the qāḍī of Alexandria, taking him on a trip to Tunisia, sending him to the countryside on administrative work, suggesting to him travels to Yemen and to Syria) were to no avail. Maḵlūf quotes his son as writing ‘as long as you are alive, I have bad luck. As soon as you are dead, I shall be successful’. The letter’s purpose is to seek business for Maḵlūf and a position with the addressee for his wastrel son.
İlişkili Ad(lar)	Abū Najāḥ ‘the plundering monk’ (government official)
Durum	faded
Bağışçı(lar)	Schechter, S. (Solomon), 1847-1915; Taylor, Charles, 1840-1908
Fonlama	The digitisation of the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection has been sponsored by the Jewish Manuscript Preservation Society, the Friedberg Genizah Project Inc., and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.
Mizanpaj	60 lines + marginalia (recto); 54 lines (verso)
Materyal	Paper
Menşei Yeri	Tunisia
Köken (Provenance)	Donated by Dr Solomon Schechter and his patron Dr Charles Taylor in 1898 as part of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection
Yüzyıl 1	1100s C.E.
Oluşturma Tarihi (Bağlantı Türü)	keyword search
Tarih Aralığı	[1131-01-01 TO 1131-12-31]
Oluşturma Türü	creation
Yıl (Bitiş)	1131
Yıl (Başlangıç)	1131
Görüntü Hakları (Görüntüleme)	Cambridge University Library
Görüntü Hakları (İndirme)	This image may be used in accord with fair use and fair dealing provisions, including teaching and research. If you wish to reproduce it within publications or on the public web, please contact [email protected].
Dil Kodu 1	jrb
Dil Kodu 2	heb
Dil Kodu 3	ara
Dil 1	Judeo-Arabic
Dil 2	Hebrew
Dil 3	Arabic
Metadata Hakları	This metadata is published free of restrictions, under the terms of the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
Küçük Resim Yönü	portrait
Filigran Beyanı	Cambridge University Library

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Letter

Yazar Maḵlūf b. Mūsā al-Nafūsī

Konu Cairo Genizah

Tür Belge

Dil ara,heb,jrb

Dijital Evet

Yazma Evet

Sayfa Sayısı 2

Fiziksel Boyutlar 1 leaf. Leaf height: 52.7 cm, width: 8.9 cm.

Kütüphane Cambridge Dijital Kütüphanesi

Kayıt Numarası MS-TS-00024-00078

Lokasyon Cambridge University Library — T-S 24.78

Tarih 1131 CE-1131-12-31-1131-01-01

Notlar Letter from the merchant Maḵlūf b. Mūsā al-Nafūsī, the ‘overseer of the Sultan’s ships’, to an influential friend. Maḵlūf had left Alexandria for Tunisia, fleeing ‘the plundering monk’, the notorious finance minister Abū Najāḥ. Maḵlūf arrived in Alexandria in the spring following Abū Najāḥ’s death, travelled to Tunisia in the summer of 1130 CE, and wrote the letter the following summer (1131 CE). Much of the letter details the behaviour of his profligate and disreputable son. All Maḵlūf’s attempts to correct him (presenting him to the qāḍī of Alexandria, taking him on a trip to Tunisia, sending him to the countryside on administrative work, suggesting to him travels to Yemen and to Syria) were to no avail. Maḵlūf quotes his son as writing ‘as long as you are alive, I have bad luck. As soon as you are dead, I shall be successful’. The letter’s purpose is to seek business for Maḵlūf and a position with the addressee for his wastrel son.

İlişkili Ad(lar) Abū Najāḥ ‘the plundering monk’ (government official)

Durum faded

Bağışçı(lar) Schechter, S. (Solomon), 1847-1915; Taylor, Charles, 1840-1908

Fonlama The digitisation of the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection has been sponsored by the Jewish Manuscript Preservation Society, the Friedberg Genizah Project Inc., and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.

Mizanpaj 60 lines + marginalia (recto); 54 lines (verso)

Materyal Paper

Menşei Yeri Tunisia

Köken (Provenance) Donated by Dr Solomon Schechter and his patron Dr Charles Taylor in 1898 as part of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

Yüzyıl 1 1100s C.E.

Oluşturma Tarihi (Bağlantı Türü) keyword search

Tarih Aralığı [1131-01-01 TO 1131-12-31]

Oluşturma Türü creation

Yıl (Bitiş) 1131

Yıl (Başlangıç) 1131

Görüntü Hakları (Görüntüleme) Cambridge University Library

Görüntü Hakları (İndirme) This image may be used in accord with fair use and fair dealing provisions, including teaching and research. If you wish to reproduce it within publications or on the public web, please contact [email protected].

Dil Kodu 1 jrb

Dil Kodu 2 heb

Dil Kodu 3 ara

Dil 1 Judeo-Arabic

Dil 2 Hebrew

Dil 3 Arabic

Metadata Hakları This metadata is published free of restrictions, under the terms of the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

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Filigran Beyanı Cambridge University Library