Letter: T-S 16.26

Letter T-S 16.26

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T-S 16.26
Primary Languages
Hebrew
Judaeo-Arabic

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Part of a letter written by a Samaritan carpenter, Joseph b. Ismaʿīl, asserting his devotion to the Law and seeking employment for the writer. It was probably written to a Rabbanite community. Bodl. MS heb. b 11/13 is a letter from the same individual, and reveals he is destitute and requests that the ‘head carpenter’ be instructed to accept him, because his co-religionists, the Samaritans, were too concerned with their own prosperity and not with poor people like him. The letter is written on the inside folios of a bifolium, with the writer’s name on f. 1r and blank on f. 2v. It appears to have been bound into a codex. (Information from CUDL.)

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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In PGP since 2018
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T-S 16.26 1r

1r

T-S 16.26 1v

1v
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