State document: ENA NS 39.10

State document ENA NS 39.10

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Shelfmark
ENA NS 39.10
Primary Languages
Arabic
Judaeo-Arabic

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Recto: Two lines in Arabic script, probably a petition to a Fatimid vizier "mawlāy al-wazīr al-ajall ṣafiyy amīr al-muʾminīn wa-khāliṣatuh." In Judaeo-Arabic, between the lines and upside down, "God guard the servant of the Shaykh Abū ʿImrān." Verso: Prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic. If the year is born in Gemini (الجوزاء): harvests will be rich, the Nile will flood, the cattle will die, a skin disease will break out, and the Byzantines will set sail and their ships will founder. The noblest kings will die and fitna will break out. There will be many refugees. It ends "allāhu aʿlam bi-l-ghayb" (only God knows the unknown). ASE.

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Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA NS 39, f. 10; ENA NS 39, fol. 10
Input date
In PGP since 2017
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ENA NS 39.10 2

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ENA NS 39.10 1

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Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA NS 39.10. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/11775/, accessed November 27, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/11775/