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
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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In PGP since 2018

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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.

T-S AS 152.86 1r

1r

Transcription

Translation

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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