Legal document: T-S K25.240.47

Legal document T-S K25.240.47

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Shelfmark
T-S K25.240.47
Primary Languages
Arabic
Judaeo-Arabic

Description

Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abu l-Majd is to give the bearer, al-Shaykh al-Rashīd, some sum. T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 420-421, App. A 48-92; pp. 449-450, App. B 39b [dated 1210-1225]; Cohen, Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt, pp. 218-220)

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Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS K, 25, f. 240.47; TS Box K, 25, f. 240.47; TS Box K, 25, fol. 240.47; TS K, 25, fol. 240.47
Input date
In PGP since 2017
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S K25.240.47. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/8583/, accessed November 27, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/8583/