Letter: ENA NS 77.189

Letter ENA NS 77.189

Metadata

Shelfmark
ENA NS 77.189
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

What's in the PGP

  • Image

Description

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in a neat scribal hand. Very faded. The sender seems to be a woman (based on "sākina" in l. 8). She seems to be bemoaning her isolation and having to live among gentiles. There is a man who "has no one to feed him or give him to drink" and she is scared of something. She mentions the synagogue. Toward the bottom she mentions growing weak or sick and a headache. There are four lines on verso in a different hand.

Additional metadata

Collection
Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA NS 77, fol. 189; ENA NS 77, f. 189
Input date
In PGP since 2017
Image
Transcription
Translation

ENA NS 77.189 1

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1

ENA NS 77.189 2

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2
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Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA NS 77.189. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/11891/ (accessed June 6, 2026).