Letter: T-S NS J600

Letter T-S NS J600

Metadata

Shelfmark
T-S NS J600
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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Description

Letter fragment (bottom part only). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably c.1100, since Abū Naṣr al-ʿAfṣī appears in Halper 466 and T-S K15.106. Gives various business instructions. Mentions that Abū Naṣr al-ʿAfṣī owes nothing to the sender nor to Ibn Nuṣayr; mentions going up to Cairo; passing on information about the price of sugar (it is "22"); the addressee is to retrieve dinars from a female shopowner (ṣāḥibat al-dukkān); also mentions Abū l-Mundhir and Rashīd. In the margins there is the remnant of an Arabic-script document.

Related Places

Mentioned
Cairo, Rosetta

Additional metadata

Provenance
Geniza
Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Input date
In PGP since 2019
Image
Transcription
Translation

T-S NS J600 1r

°
1r

T-S NS J600 1v

1v
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    Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S NS J600. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/26547/ (accessed June 30, 2026).