State document: T-S Misc.28.155

State document T-S Misc.28.155

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Shelfmark
T-S Misc.28.155
Primary Language
Arabic

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Description

Recto: Fatimid state document. Maybe a petition or report. In Arabic script. 5 lines are preserved. Refers to somebody who rejects benefaction (munākarat al-naʿīm) and who is addicted to drink and childish games (muʿāqarat al-sharāb... wa-liʿāb al-shabāb). Someone or somebody (presumably an act of the addressee or the addressee himself) was "like happiness after sickness and light after darkness" to the sender. "If adab were a body, you/he would be its soul; if an eye its sun."

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Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Box Misc. 28, f. 155; TS Box Misc. 28, fol. 155
Input date
In PGP since 2021
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Transcription
Translation

T-S Misc.28.155 1r

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1r

T-S Misc.28.155 1v

1v
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