رسالة: T-S 8J21.20
رسالة T-S 8J21.20What's in the PGP
- صورة
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الوصف
Begging letter from a certain Yosef to Yeshuʿa ha-Sar, asking him to help him buy clothes. Complains of the cold. On verso there are accounts in Arabic script. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)
صورة
النصوص المفرّغة
الترجمة
Translator: Cohen, Mark (in English)
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Mark Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2005).
- In (your) na(me, O Merciful)
- Your slave Joseph
- kisses the ground before (your) ex(ellency), hono(r), gr(eatness), ho(liness), pre(cious),
- el(evated), pe(arl), wr(eath), cr(own), gl(ory), (our) ma(ster) and te(acher),
- Yeshuʿa the great Dignitary among the Jews, may God his Rock protect him
- and be his succor, and informs you
- that your slave is being killed by the cold
- and by hunger. Your slave cannot face asking
- anything from anyone. Your slave's request
- from our merciful and charitable master is for
- help with money for a robe. You will earn a
Margin
- reward that [is written], "When you se[e the naked],
- clothe him [and]
- do not ignore [your own kin]" (Isaiah 58:7).
- Your slave in[f]orms you
- about this. And peace.
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