Letter: T-S Ar.39.277

Letter T-S Ar.39.277

Metadata

Shelfmark
T-S Ar.39.277
Primary Language
Arabic

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Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 39, fol. 277; TS Arabic Box 39, f. 277
Input date
In PGP since 2017

Description

Recto: Letter/petition from Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān Abū l-Faraj (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu the Judge). In Arabic script. A narrow vertical strip is missing from the right side. In which Shelomo complains of his poverty and illnesses (alām) and asks for help paying the capitation tax. He insists on giving his turban as collateral for a dirham to defray the cost of the capitation tax. He may be asking on his father's behalf as well as his own (mentioned three lines from the bottom). (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

T-S Ar.39.277 1r

1r

Transcription

Translation

T-S Ar.39.277 1v

1v
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