Letter: T-S AS 153.206

Letter T-S AS 153.206

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T-S AS 153.206
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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Official letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids, with a motto (ʿalāma) at the top. The cantor Faraj is instructed to look after the bearer, Yom Ṭov, who is blind and poor, by arranging a collection for him and his family in the synagogue. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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In PGP since 2018
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T-S AS 153.206 1r

1r
Dotan Arad, "The Mustaʿrib Jews in Syria, Palestine and Egypt: 1330-1700‎" (in Hebrew) (PhD diss., PhD Dissertation. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem., 2013).

Recto

  1. [העלאמה של הנגיד]
  2. אלשיך פרג'אל אלחזן הי"ב יתוצא בחאמלהא         
  3. אלשיך ר' יום טוב ותג'בי לה פי בית הכנסת          
  4. באנה מצ'רור ואהל ביתה צעיפין ולא                   
  5. ת^כליה יני אלא והו דאע^י לכם וללקהל 
  6. ושלום

T-S AS 153.206 1v

1v
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