List or table: BL OR 12344.4
List or table BL OR 12344.4Description
Writing exercises in epistolary Judaeo-Arabic. The student's surname appears in the upper heading "Zardel" a variant of the name Abzardil/Abzaradel that appears in early modern documents. In the heading the instructor offered a phrase in model handwriting for the student to repeat (the phrase is a common formulary in correspondence). This format of writing exercises dates to the eighteenth or nineteenth century. MCD.