Credit instrument or private receipt: T-S AS 184.56

Credit instrument or private receipt T-S AS 184.56

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Shelfmark
T-S AS 184.56
Primary Languages
Arabic
Greek/Coptic Numerals
Hebrew
Judaeo-Arabic

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Description

Recto: Order of payment. Written mainly in Arabic script with Hebrew characters for the "emet" at the top, שצ after the name, and "ve-shalom" and the date. Abū l-Najm the parnas is asked to pay 5 dirhams to the bearer for something to do with Dār al-Burj. Written on the 8th of Sivan. Likely in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. On verso there is a fragment of an earlier document in Arabic.

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Scribe
Avraham Maimonides (uncertain)

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Provenance
Geniza
Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Input date
In PGP since 2023
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Translation

T-S AS 184.56 1r

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1r
Alan Elbaum's digital edition (2023).

Recto

  1. . . .      𐋥     אמת
  2. الشيخ ابي النجم الفرناس שצ
  3. يوصل لموصلها //خمسة// دراهم سوه
  4. برسم عن دار البرج من كل بد
  5. ושלום

Recto, right margin

  1. בתאריך ח
  2. סיון
  3. ישע יקרב

T-S AS 184.56 1v

1v
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