List or table: BL OR 12344.4

List or table BL OR 12344.4

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BL OR 12344.4
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Judaeo-Arabic

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In PGP since 2024

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Writing exercises in epistolary Judaeo-Arabic. The student's surname appears in the upper heading "Zardel" a variant of the name Abzardil/Abzaradel that appears in early modern documents. In the heading the instructor offered a phrase in model handwriting for the student to repeat (the phrase is a common formulary in correspondence). This format of writing exercises dates to the eighteenth or nineteenth century. MCD.

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