A Literary Letter from the Cairo Genizah in Judeo-Arabic
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https://doi.org/10.3989/sefarad.015.009Keywords:
Genizah, Rhymed Prose, Alandalus, Judeo-ArabicAbstract
This paper includes the edition, translation, study of the contents and the linguistic analysis of a literary letter preserved in the manuscript Ebr-Arab I4575 of the Firkovich collection. The author seems to keep a close relationship with the addressee; he might be his kātib or personal secretary. In any case the author of this letter is the person in charge of provide the addressee with copies of books and prepare other materials. The letter clearly shows the cultural atmosphere and the aesthetic categories of the time and above all, how hard it was to get a reliable copy of an Andalusi divan.
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