State document: T-S AS 202.396

State document T-S AS 202.396

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T-S AS 202.396
Primary Language
Arabic

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Verso: Petition from a woman. In Arabic script. She is "cut-off" (munqaṭiʿa) and poor (ṣuʿlūka). Not much else is preserved. On verso there is a contributors list in the hand of Maimonides (see separate record).

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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In PGP since 2022
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T-S AS 202.396 1v

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1v
Amir Ashur and Alan Elbaum, "New Maimonidean Documents," in From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit (Brill, 2024), 10–20.

Verso

  1. تقبل الارض بين يديها وتنهي بساميها دامت [نعمتها
  2. وهلـكت اعاديها انها امراة منقطعة صعلوكة فقيرة ليس
  3. لها ...... الا

Verso

  1. يقبل الارض بين يديها وينهي [..]مها وكبتب [حسدتها
  2. وهلكت اعاديها انها امراة منقطعة صعلوكة فقيرة لن
Amir Ashur and Alan Elbaum, "New Maimonidean Documents," in From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit (Brill, 2024), 10–20.

Verso

  1. [The slave] kisses the ground before him and reports to his loftiness—may his favour endure
  2. and his enemies perish—that she is a cut-off woman, indigent, poor, who has no
  3. [one but God and him ....].
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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S AS 202.396. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/35749/ (accessed October 8, 2026).