Letter: T-S Misc.28.166

Letter T-S Misc.28.166

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Shelfmark
T-S Misc.28.166
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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Description

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Addressed to Natan b. Avraham ha-Kohen Sholal (?). The writer expresses his longing for the addressee (r1–4). He gives news of family members such as the addressee's maternal uncle Moshe (doing well), news of the addressee's father ('sayyidak,' the next phrase is unclear), and news of business in his location (doing poorly: al-bilād fasadat) (r4–8). In the remainder of the letter he gives his own news (traveling to the 'west') (r9). Two people have died (r13) in addition to the writer's own wife (r14). He gives the addressee advice in case he enters Egypt/Fustat (r17), involving al-Ḥajj Qasim b. Tammām. Merits further examination ASE.

Related People

Recipient
Natan b. Avraham ha-Kohen Sholal

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Provenance
Geniza
Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Box Misc. 28, f. 166; TS Box Misc. 28, fol. 166
Input date
In PGP since 2020
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Transcription
Translation

T-S Misc.28.166 1r

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1r

T-S Misc.28.166 1v

°
1v
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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S Misc.28.166. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/23400/ (accessed July 19, 2026).