Letter: T-S Ar.40.126
Letter T-S Ar.40.126Tags
Description
On verso (reuse): Draft of a petition from the dyers of Qalyūb, in Judaeo-Arabic. Crossed out.
Edition: Aodeh, Sabih
Translation: Goitein, S. D. (in English)
T-S Ar.40.126 1v
Transcription
Sabih Aodeh, "Eleventh Century Arabic Letters of Jewish Merchants from the Cairo Geniza" (in Hebrew) (PhD diss., PhD diss. Tel Aviv University, 1992).- [[אלממאליך אלצבאגין בקליוב יקבלו אלארץ
- וינהו אן קד אההא(?) הלכו מן גלו אלבצא[יע(?)
- וקלה אלמעישה ואלצמאן אלתקיל וזאיד
- אלצרף וקד]]
Translation
S. D. Goitein, Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973).Verso
- The servants, the dyers in Qalyūb, kiss the ground
- and announce that they perish because of the high price of the wheat,
- the scarcity of work, the heavy license fee, and the rise of the exchange rate