Legal document: ENA 4011.38

Legal document ENA 4011.38

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ENA 4011.38
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Arabic
Judaeo-Arabic

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Draft of a request addressed to Sayyidnā. Written in an unusual combination of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic in Arabic script: ينعم سيدنا يعرفني ما בקי ללשיך פל في الشهادة الذي بيده مكتتبة בערכאות של גוים עלי בן פל بميتين(؟) וכמסון דרהמא ונצף והי עלי ימין פל . . . . The sender wishes to know how much is still owed to 'so-and-so' by 'the son of so-and-so' according to a deed of debt from the Muslim courts originally for 50.5 (or 250.5?) dirhams. On verso there is a similar note in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic in Arabic script, along with a draft of a beginning of a Jewish legal deed dated Ṭevet 1559 Seleucid, which is 1247/48 CE. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA 4011, fol. 38; ENA 4011, f. 38
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In PGP since 2017
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Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA 4011.38. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/6830/ (accessed June 7, 2026).