Letter: T-S Ar.6.26

Letter T-S Ar.6.26

Metadata

Shelfmark
T-S Ar.6.26
Primary Languages
Arabic
Judaeo-Arabic

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Description

Business or official letter in Arabic script, top only; continues on verso. Likely from Ḥamīd b. Qāsim to a qāḍī; mentions Abū l-Ḥasan b. Salīm. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic text on recto and verso, according to Baker and Polliack about Alexander the Great; mentions China (al-Ṣīn) several times.

Related Places

Mentioned
al-Ṣīn

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Additional metadata

Provenance
Geniza
Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 6, f. 26; TS Arabic Box 6, fol. 26
Input date
In PGP since 2019
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Transcription
Translation

T-S Ar.6.26 1r

°
1r

T-S Ar.6.26 1v

°
1v
Image Permissions Statement
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S Ar.6.26. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/30330/ (accessed August 6, 2026).