State document: ENA 2808.56

State document ENA 2808.56

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Shelfmark
ENA 2808.56
Primary Language
Arabic

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Petition in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The sender is saying, to paraphrase, "I am your most devoted servant, so don't force me to file a complaint with a higher authority over such a little matter" (...fa-yakūn al-mamlūk mamlūk mawlānā ʿumrī kulluh yuḥrijunī an ashtakī li-l-sulṭān ʿalā hadhā l-miqdār wa-mawlānā...). In the last two lines, he mentions 'the land' and 'its planting' (zirāʿatuhā). Reused on recto for a satirical poem in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate record).

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Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA 2808, f. 56; ENA 2808, fol. 56
Input date
In PGP since 2017
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Translation

ENA 2808.56 2

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Yusuf Umrethwala, unpublished editions (n.p., 2023).

Recto

  1. ويكون المملوك مملوك مولانا عمري كل يحرجني
  2. ان اشتكي للسلطان على هذا المقدار
  3. ومولانا محاشا من هذا المملوك ينهي
  4. ان وسيد المملوك الذي في البلد ما لها
  5. تبن للزراعتها هـ[  ] التبن فابش

ENA 2808.56 1

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Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA 2808.56. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/11063/, accessed November 27, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/11063/