Letter: T-S NS 327.4

Letter T-S NS 327.4

Metadata

Shelfmark
T-S NS 327.4
Document Date
Primary Language
Arabic

What's in the PGP

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Description

Fragment of a letter. In Arabic script. The addressee seems to be a scholar and physician in the entourage of the Mamluk sultan Qānṣūh al-Ghūrī (r. 1501–16): al-jināb al-karīm al-ʿālī al-mawlawī. . . lisān al-mutakallimīn ḥujjat al-munāẓirīn munāṣiḥ al-mulūk wa-l-salāṭīn. . . . rayyis al-aṭibbāʾ. . . ." There follow some blessings for him, then four lines of homage to the sultan himself, whose name appears at the beginning of the penultimate line. ASE

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Provenance
Geniza
Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Input date
In PGP since 2019
Image
Transcription
Translation

T-S NS 327.4 1r

°
1r

T-S NS 327.4 1v

°
1v
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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S NS 327.4. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/25832/ (accessed October 14, 2026).