Letter: T-S Ar.40.126

Letter T-S Ar.40.126

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T-S Ar.40.126
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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Description

On verso (reuse): Draft of a petition from the dyers of Qalyūb, in Judaeo-Arabic. Crossed out.

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Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 40, fol. 126; TS Arabic Box 40, f. 126
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In PGP since 2023
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T-S Ar.40.126 1v

1v
Sabih Aodeh, "Eleventh Century Arabic Letters of Jewish Merchants from the Cairo Geniza‎" (in Hebrew) (PhD diss., PhD diss. Tel Aviv University, 1992).
  1. [[אלממאליך אלצבאגין בקליוב יקבלו אלארץ
  2. וינהו אן קד אההא(?) הלכו מן גלו אלבצא[יע(?)
  3. וקלה אלמעישה ואלצמאן אלתקיל וזאיד
  4. אלצרף וקד]]
S. D. Goitein, Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973).

Verso

  1. The servants, the dyers in Qalyūb, kiss the ground
  2. and announce that they perish because of the high price of the wheat,
  3. the scarcity of work, the heavy license fee, and the rise of the exchange rate

T-S Ar.40.126 1r

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