Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums · 1897-01-01 · Heft 9 · p. Seite 425

Aus einem lirmfn Flkan N. Adlor’s. 425 Poth the Persmn 11111! בהובה timt temp. Samuel the Nngid hvnt the »כרד as apperraining1, not to the שיבה\ Imt to the הדן. And as the hitter was enrlier tlmn timt of Professor Merx, I oannot lielp thinking timt he w!ks right in his trau*־ lation and, if l mav vontun? to correct so correct. a coiTector, Professor Kaufmann wnui^j. Of eoiirse nriginally, sonn* eenturies betöre, ,כלך may Imve mcant **(.•nllc^e’1 in timt Connection. In the Contemporary Machsor Vitry and the Etz-Umim ot‘ lv. Jacob 1 »(,11 .Jeliuda liazan of London it will be observed, no introduetion wlmtever is given, wo. aro thereforc, I tbink, justiHed in assiuning. timt it was ouly in comparntively modern timos that introduotions booaiuo de rigueur. In early״ timos, thev seem to lmve be.en what, the supcrscription to a letter is in epistolary llebrew, entiroly a matter of choiee, depending perhapa, just!1 little, on the priee paid to the כיפר. As to Nathanael, one of my fragnnmts, not only proves that l)r. Neubauer is right in elaiming tliat he was ne vor a Nagid so called, but perhapa tends to disprovo the proud attribution ot the משה in Professor Kaufmann s arabie ,כדיבד on pages 215 and 216 to Maimonides. It seems to be an aceount2) of the installatioM of Nathanael as Rosb Yesheeba of tlu? ביד דין הגדול בכל מדינוך ארץ מציים. Amidst <1 host of other titles be is introduced to 11s as קציגגי גאוגגו אחיגו גדגאל ראש הישיבה שלגולה.בן הדרך בלר־גא .ורבגא משה הלוי הראש המובהק הגאון הגדול מגוחדו כביד אה אלהיו Now is it 1iot possible timt in 1172 (a dato rathor early for Maimonides in Egypt) Moses was still alive and that he was de facto if not de jure Nagid öfter Samuel’* death, or, at least, that by the writer of the 1172 arabie כהרבה he נ) In beiden Documenten Hteht: דחתן ולניה Meine Bemerkung bezieht sich auf die Fülle, wo ודניה allein stellt. Die Berichtigung־ entfüllt somit vou selbst. D. K —■ I hav*» looked up the facsimib*!uni hml that וינדה begius a Ihm. It is qnito possible that in the original לחי,ן really was tim last word of tho procediug line. K. N. A. *) I have x somewhat «imdar account of the iustallation of the second Nagid, Samuel ben Paltiel(?), which will appear in the Jewish Quarterly Review for July. ״) Vide Jt^R. VIII 551 and 8eqq. One of my fragment« there quoted by Dr. Neubauer «eerus to asnume that Nathanael — or at any rate a brother of hia — was still alive in 1217.