Letter: T-S AS 152.86 + T-S AS 152.168

Letter T-S AS 152.86 + T-S AS 152.168

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T-S AS 152.86 + T-S AS 152.168
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Judaeo-Arabic

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Letter in the hand of Maimonides, with a medical recipe consisting of (iron) water, lentisk and spikenard, and a mysterious mention of a huge number of wooden ships ("There arrived from the wooden (ships) that which blocked the sea/Nile, 100 ships and 18 great ships, all of them wood.") (Information from CUDL, join from CUDL.) See Wagner, E. (2007). A newly-discovered fragment of a letter written by Maimonides (T-S AS 152.86). [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, October 2007]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.40720.

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T-S AS 152.86 1r

1r
Esther-Miriam Wagner, "A newly-discovered fragment of a letter written by Maimonides (T-S AS 152.86)," Fragment of the Month (Cambridge University: Genizah Research Unit, 2007).

recto

  1. [... ת]עד עשרה ארטאל זב[רה (?) ...] 
  2. תשרב והו יכון מוקת כל טעאם 
  3. תאכלה וכל מא ת[א]שי עמלת שיא
  4. אכר וצפתה תאכד קדרא 
  5. גדידה פכאר ותגעל פיהא עשרה
  6. ארטאל מא ודרהמיין מצטכי 
  7. ודרהם סנבל גיר מס[חוק] ..
  8. ... (אר)טאל חדיד ....
Esther-Miriam Wagner, "A newly-discovered fragment of a letter written by Maimonides (T-S AS 152.86)," Fragment of the Month (Cambridge University: Genizah Research Unit, 2007).

recto

  1. … (you should) prepare ten pounds of (iron?) …
  2. you should drink, and this should be timed with every meal
  3. you eat, and whenever you need (?). I made another
  4. thing. Its recipe (is): take a new
  5. earthen pot, and put in it ten
  6. pounds of water and 2 dirhams of lentisk and
  7. a dirham of spikenard, [whole] not crushed …
  8. … (po)unds of iron …

T-S AS 152.86 1v

1v

T-S AS 152.168 1r

1r

T-S AS 152.168 1v

1v
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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S AS 152.86 + Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S AS 152.168. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/17791/, accessed November 27, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/17791/