Letter: T-S AS 146.6

Letter T-S AS 146.6

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T-S AS 146.6
Editors
S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, Ḥalfon the Traveling Merchant Scholar : Cairo Geniza Documents‎ (in Hebrew) (2013), vol. 4.
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Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic
Secondary Language
Arabic

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In PGP since 2017

Description

Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic with several lines in Arabic script on verso. Dated: 11 Sivan [4901] AM, which is 18 May 1141 CE. Abū Naṣr informs the addressee that Yehuda ha-Levi set sail on Wednesday, the first day of Shavuʿot, after leaving him a letter for the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya, which accompanies this letter. The Arabic text on verso—which may or may not be related—reads "... he did not accept from him, and he went up with him/it to Cairo and was declared bankrupt. . . to go with them, and he met the Rayyis and told him, and he saved him from them." (Information from CUDL and from Goitein and Friedman, India Book IV.)

T-S AS 146.6 1r

1r

Transcription

S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, Ḥalfon the Traveling Merchant Scholar : Cairo Geniza Documents‎ (in Hebrew) (Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 2013), vol. 4.
  1. וסמוהא וארתקאהא [ו]כִבִתִ [חסדתה ...]
  2. במא אנא גני ען אעאדתה ועלקת הדין2 [אלחרפין]
  3. לאנהי אליהא אן רבנו יהודה הלוי יזכר באלפי שלומות
  4. אקלע יום אלארבעא אלאול מן חג השבועות ודפע
  5. לי כתאב כתבה לסידנא אלנגיד עלי ע̇גל תפ̇צל
  6. אוצלה לה אללה יכתב סלאמתה ויגמע אלשמל בה3
  7. פקד עלם אללה וכפי בה עלים4 מא דכל עלי קלבי מן
  8. [...] מרִ[א]כִב אלגרב סארת ודאר5
  9. [...] טייב גאיה

Right Margin

(1) יכדמו[הא7 באפצל אלסלאם] (2) וכדם8 חצרתה [לא יכליני] (3) מנהא וחסבי אללה (4) ונעם אלוכיל (5) ̇י̇א סיון (6) כתב לילא עלי עגל (7) עדרא אלי סאמיהא

Translation

T-S AS 146.6 1v

1v
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