State document: ENA NS 18.27

State document ENA NS 18.27

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In PGP since 2017

Description

Official letter in Arabic script. 4 lines preserved, wide line spacing. Reused for legal documents in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate entry). Seems to be a report/petition from somebody keen to join the service of the addressee/government (wa-jarradtu raʾy fī l-khidma), and proclaiming the 'word of righteousness' from on high ([...] ʿalā l-manābir wa-nashr albāb(?) kalimat al-ṣidq bi-aʿlā l-maʾāthir), and how a group of people went to al-Shām (wa-ʿaṭṭaftu/wa-ʿaṭafat ahwāhā ḥattā ṣārū ilā bilād al-shām). Needs further examination.

ENA NS 18.27 1

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Transcription

Yusuf Umrethwala and Alan Elbaum, unpublished editions (n.p., 2022).

Recto

  1. حدي(؟) وسعد بما حوطه (؟) [
  2. وجردت راي في الخدمة بحيث ساء(؟) [. . .] السـ[. . .] دعـ[وة(؟)
  3. على المنابر ونشر الباب كلمة الصدق باعلى المآثر وصرفت
  4. لوا عشيري(؟) وعطفت اهواها حتى صاروا الى بلاد الشام
  5. والاعناق [

Translation

ENA NS 18.27 2

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