Letter: Moss. II,135.3

Letter Moss. II,135.3

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Moss. II,135.3
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper margin of recto and part of the address on verso). The addressee should send the response with "the fleet" (al-uṣṭūl). Regards to various people, including "(the friend of?) my wife (ṣāḥibat baytnā) Sitt al-Shām the daughter of the son of Hiba." Mentions a woman who is all alone; the addressee should urge her family to come visit her. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Cambridge University Library, Mosseri
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In PGP since 2018
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Moss. II,135.3 1r

°
1r
Alan Elbaum's digital edition (2022).

Recto, upper margin:

  1. תכץ אכו]תי וכואתי וגמיע אולאדהם
  2. ענ]י באתם סלאם וגמיע מן סאל
  3. עני אלסלאם
  4. ] . . וצאחבה ביתנא סת אל
  5. שאם בנת בן הבה
  6. תכצכם באלסלאם
  7. ] . . עליך יא סידי לעל
  8. ] אהלהא תכליהם יגהו(?)
  9. ]ברהם לאנהא אשת .
  10. מא להא אחד פתערפהם
  11. ] מא אקדר עלי אלכרוג
  12. ] . לי רבע דנאניר מא
  13. יכליני אלדי הי לה
  14. אכרג

Moss. II,135.3 1v

°
1v

Verso:

  1. יתפצל ומולאי יוצלה
  2. לצאחבה ויכון אלגואב צחבה אלאצטול אן שא אללה
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