Letter: T-S Ar.34.186

Letter T-S Ar.34.186

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Shelfmark
T-S Ar.34.186
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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Description

Recto: Letter of appeal. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the name of a woman who is 'cut off and my husband is absent.' Also mentions her son, 2 dirhams a month, and a ḥukm (a court case?). The scribe has a very distinctive אל; probably the same scribe who wrote Halper 466; see Penn catalog (https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/h466.html) and further references there. On verso there may be the remnants of a chancery document (just one or two enormous letters).

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Provenance
Geniza
Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 34, f. 186; TS Arabic Box 34, fol. 186
Input date
In PGP since 2021
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Transcription
Translation

T-S Ar.34.186 1r

°
1r

T-S Ar.34.186 1v

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1v
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