State document: T-S K6.98

State document T-S K6.98

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Shelfmark
T-S K6.98
Primary Language
Arabic

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Beginning of a report to a Fatimid caliph. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Involving a woman. (Or perhaps this is a petition from a woman to an unidentified addressee, opening with blessings for the caliph.) On verso there are five lines of Judaeo-Arabic poetry (refers to love and then "if there is a poet among you, let him prophesy") and Coptic numerals. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Provenance
Geniza
Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS K, 6, fol. 98; TS Box K, 6, fol. 98; TS Box K, 6, f. 98; TS K, 6, f. 98
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In PGP since 2018
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T-S K6.98 1r

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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
  1.            بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
  2. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته و[افضل تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا الامام ......... امير المومنين]
  3. وعلى ابائه الطاهرين الائمة المتهدين [و] عـ[ـلى ابنائه الاكرمين                    ]
  4. كانت العبدة قد انهت الى [                                          ]
  5. شيئا ولما عادت العبدة الى منز[لها                                         ]
  6. [                          ]  عـ[                        ]
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

  1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.

  2. The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and [most excellent peace and greetings be upon our master and lord, the imām ..........., commander of the faithfuI,]

  3. and upon his pure ancestors, the rightly-guided imāms, [and] upon his most noble sons ]

  4. The woman slave reported to [ ]

  5. something, and when the slave returned to her house,

  6.  [  ]. [  ]

T-S K6.98 1v

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