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Letter and panegyric from a certain Khalfūn to the Nagid. The poet's name is spelled in an acrostic in the last 5 words of the poem. Alexander Scheiber argued in 1960 (based purely on internal evidence) that the poet was [Yiṣḥaq Ibn] Khalfūn and the addressee Shemuel ha-Nagid. The note underneath the poem starts, "And seeing as my poetic inspiration (qarīḥa) has died due to all my worries and has not managed to make something worthy of our master the Nagid..." and concludes with best wishes for the holiday of Purim.
Editor: Ed. and trans. Alexander Scheiber, "Isaac Ibn Chalfon's Panegyric Poem Addressed to Samuel Han-Nagid: From the Kaufmann Geniza," Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 10, no. 1 (1960).
Library: MTA
Type: Letter