Letter: Moss. II,127.1
Letter Moss. II,127.1What's in the PGP
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Informal note addressed to Mukarram and Abū Manṣūr. In Judaeo-Arabic. They are requested to convey the dinar they had pledged for the first installment of the capitation tax to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-ʿIzz al-Levi. It will be used to pay the capitation tax of a cantor. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 511)
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Editor: Goitein, S. D.
Translator: Cohen, Mark (in English)
Moss. II,127.1 1r
S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions.
- אלשיך מכרם ואלשיך אבו מנצור
- ישצ ינעמוא יוצלוא ללשיך
- אלאגל אלמכין אבו אלעז אללוי
- שצ דינאר עין אלדי אסמוה
- פי גבאיה אלגואלי אלמעגלה
- יזנה פי גאליה אלחזן ושלום
Mark Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005).
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The shaykh Mukarram and the shaykh Abū Manṣūr, (may their) R(ock) p(rotect them), shall kindly deliver to the most illustrious shaykh al-Makīn Abuʾl-ʿIzz the Levite (may his) R(ock) p(rotect him) a gold dinar, which they pledged during a collection for the first installment of the poll tax, to be paid for the pol1 tax of the cantor. And peace.
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