Legal document: T-S K25.240.52

Legal document T-S K25.240.52

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T-S K25.240.52
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Arabic
Judaeo-Arabic

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Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Abū l-Majd is to give a certain sum of money to somebody. Written on verso of a fragment of a letter that was addressed to Avraham. 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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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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TS Box K, 25, fol. 240.52; TS Box K, 25, f. 240.52; TS K, 25, fol. 240.52; TS K, 25, f. 240.52
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T-S K25.240.52 1r

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T-S K25.240.52 1v

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1v
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