Letter: T-S NS 190.21

Letter T-S NS 190.21

Metadata

Shelfmark
T-S NS 190.21
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

Description

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1107 CE, since Ṣāʿid al-Dimashqī appears also in T-S 13J2.15 from that year. The sender of this letter gives a report about "the stone" (al-ḥajar). He went to Ṣāʿid al-Dimashqī and asked him [...]. Then he went to see Ḥusayn b. Rosh ha-Qahal, who was with a customer of his, and [...]. The sender told Ḥusayn that the stone belonged to Rabbenu [...]. Then they weighed it "without nafaḍ" and it came out to [...] (. . . ואכרגת אלחגר [פ]מא סוי פי אלסוק סתה ונצף וד[. . .] . . . אלא אן מצית אלי ענד צאעד אלדמשקי וסאלתה פי . . . פמצית קלת לחסין בן ראש הקהל וכן בידה זבון לה . . . ענד רב צאעד וקלת לה אן הדא אלחגר הו לרבינו . . . ). On verso there is a talmudic discussion written in a similar hand.

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Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Input date
In PGP since 2019
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S NS 190.21. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/23871/, accessed December 30, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/23871/