Credit instrument or private receipt: T-S K25.240.13
Credit instrument or private receipt T-S K25.240.13Tags
Description
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Written in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dated: 2 Iyyar 1529 Seleucid, which is 1218 CE. The cantor al-Makīn is to give the bearer, Faḍl al-Rashīd, a sum of money for the sake of 'jibāyat al-jawālī' (fundraising in order to pay capitation tax(es)). T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 420-421, App. A 48-92; pp. 449-450, App. B 39b [dated 1210-1225]; Cohen, Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt, pp. 218-220)
Edition: Cohen, Mark
Translation:
Transcription
Mark Cohen, unpublished editions (in Judaeo-Arabic).13
- ב
- אלשיך אלחזן אלמבין שצ' {למוצלהא אלשיך
- פצל אלרשיד? ........ בסבב גבאיה
- אלגואלי עשרין? ... תאני} אייר אתקכט
- ושלום