Letter: ENA NS 36.3

Letter ENA NS 36.3

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Shelfmark
ENA NS 36.3
Inferred Date
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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Description

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Shemuel Muslim to his uncle (ʿamm) Dāwud b. Berakha. It seems that the writer recently received a letter to the effect of "Where is my gold?" He offers his excuses in this letter: that he was in a great rush when he wrote his earlier letter, and that the addressee will receive all his money. He names amounts in Venetian gold coins (dhahab banādiqa) and Ibrāhīmīs. The latter coinage reference helps to date this fragment to no earlier than 1520 CE, when Avraham Castro began his tenure as the overseer of the Ottoman mint in Cairo (until 1524 CE). ASE. MCD.

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Collection
Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA NS 36, fol. 3; ENA NS 36, f. 3
Input date
In PGP since 2017
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Transcription
Translation

ENA NS 36.3 1

1

ENA NS 36.3 2

2
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  • ENA NS 36.3: Images provided by the Jewish Theological Seminary Library (JTSL) CC-Zero / Public Domain
Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA NS 36.3. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/12117/, accessed December 2, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/12117/