Letter: T-S Ar.39.9

Letter T-S Ar.39.9

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Shelfmark
T-S Ar.39.9
Primary Language
Arabic

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Letter from a sick man to a physician. In Arabic script. The verso is written at 90 degrees to the recto, which is unusual, but appears to be the same handwriting and the same letter. Mentions: "on Sunday... you wrote us a copy/prescription (nuskha)... my mother(?), another time to you, and compound for her... she/I entered the bath after two days... by your religion, prescribe me a medicine that will benefit me... I have / she has perished, we are all prostrated, I have no one to go out and bring me anything, and (your) kindness will not be lost on God the exalted. They said to me that it/he is a piece of flesh (qiṭʿat laḥm = a common phrase for describing a wretched sick person)... obtain(?) for me from the hospital (al-maristān) palm ointment (marham nakhlī, cf. T-S 8J20.26 and Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.22), and if I recover / she recovers... {your} kindness will not be lost on me. I salute/greet you (qaraʾtu ʿalayka al-salām)." ASE

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Provenance
Geniza
Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 39, fol. 9; TS Arabic Box 39, f. 9
Input date
In PGP since 2019
Image
Transcription
Translation

T-S Ar.39.9 1r

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1r

T-S Ar.39.9 1v

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1v
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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S Ar.39.9. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/21012/ (accessed November 14, 2026).