תיאור
מכתב העתק מישיבת ארץ ישראל לאנשי בבל בעניין מחלוקת בן מאיר; מפורסם
Princeton Geniza Project description: Letter, copy, from the Palestinian Yeshiva to the people of Babylonia regarding the Ben Meir controversy. Published Description from PGPID 33687: Epistle regarding the calendar controversy of 921–22 CE, including a response by Aharon b. Meʾir, who writes from Palestine to Baghdad. The letter begins with a preface in liturgical-poetic style. The text was copied onto oblong parchment, possibly in the late tenth century; it is a quire consisting of four bifolios, three now in Oxford and a fourth in New York. The last folio (Bodl. MS Heb. f 26/6) is damaged, and the text is reconstructed here in comparison with the transcription that Harkavy published in 1891. In the publicly available images of ENA 2556.2 on FGP and PUL, the manuscript is warped and wrinkled and part of the text hidden. The newly treated manuscript, flattened and more legible, is available here on PGP. Join: Sacha Stern.