Letter: JRL B 8588

Letter JRL B 8588

Metadata

Shelfmark
JRL B 8588
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

What's in the PGP

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Description

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known (India trade related?). May refer to owing somebody a rose-colored cooking vessel (? ṭājin warda); something else, one big and one small (ṣaghīra is written with a samekh, סגירה); someone named Ḥassūn; on verso there are greetings to "her children" followed by the intriguing phrase "at the time I went up to the fleet (al-jihāz; the word also looks like "al-jihād" but this seems much less plausible); other travelers; and reference to witnessing a legal transaction in the margin.

Additional metadata

Collection
John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Historical shelfmarks
JRL SERIES B 8588;
Input date
In PGP since 2025
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Transcription
Translation

JRL B 8588 1 / 1 leaf, recto

°
1 / 1 leaf, recto

JRL B 8588 1 / 1 leaf, verso

°
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Image Permissions Statement
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John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, JRL B 8588. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/40294/ (accessed October 14, 2026).