Credit instrument or private receipt: T-S K25.240.24

Credit instrument or private receipt T-S K25.240.24

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Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to give 10 dirhams to Yeshuʿa for teaching Ibn al-Ziftāwī through the end of Pesaḥ 1529 Seleucid (=1218 CE). 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)

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Mark Cohen, unpublished editions‎ (in Judaeo-Arabic).
  1. ב
  2. אלשיך אלחזן אבו אלמגד שצ`
  3. יוצל ללשיך ר` ישועה שצ`
  4. מן גהה וקף אלמהדב ען
  5. תעלים אבן אל.... אלי אכר
  6. פסח אתקכט עשרה דרהם ושלום

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