Scholarship on Letter: ENA 4011.17

Letter ENA 4011.17
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    S. D. Goitein, index cards.
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  2. Bibliographic citation
    Moshe Gil, Palestine During the First Muslim Period (634–1099)‎ (in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1983), vol. 3.
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    • #537
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    • Digital Edition
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  3. Bibliographic citation
    Mark Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005).
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ENA 4011.17 1

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Moshe Gil, Palestine During the First Muslim Period (634–1099)‎ (in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1983), vol. 3.

ENA 4011, f. 17 ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 3, pp.336-337 (Doc. #537), C.B. 11-11-87 (p) Short letter from David b. Daniel to a parnas (leader of the Jewish community) written in his own hand. (Gil)

  1. בשמך רחמנא
  2. סידי אלפרנס אידה אללה י[ת]סלם מן אלשיך אבי אלרצי שלמה
  3. [ב]ן מברך אדאם אללה חראסתה מן אלורק סתון דרהמא וימצי
  4. יסלמהא אלי מטלקה אבי אלבקא שמואל ויערפהא אנהא /ב/מוונה
  5. אבנתה למדה שהרין כאמלין ויתקדם אליהא באלבעד ען דכרה
  6. במא לא יסוג ואן יזול כל מן אהלהא ועשירתהא ען אעתראצה
  7. ותערף אן הדא אלקדר אל[[תי]]//די// געלה להא פי כל שהר הו אכתר
  8. ממא יעטיהא אלחכם פתערף קדר דלך ולא יעאוד אחד
  9. אלי מעארצתה פאן אלמסתקר אן יכון פי כל שהר סידי אלפרנס יתסלם
  10. אלקדר אלמקרר ויוצלה אליהא אן שא אללה ישועה
Mark Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005).

Recto

In your name, O Merciful 

 

My lord the parnas, may God support you, shall [r]eceive from the elder Abuʾl Riḍā Solomon b. Mevorakh, may God watch over him forever, 60 waraq dirhems and pay them to the divorcée of Abuʾl-Baqāʾ Samuel, telling her that this is child support for her daughter for two full months. He should direct her to desist from saying improper things about him and to have all her close and distant relatives stop interfering. She should be informed that the amount he is allocating her each month is more than what she should be given by law. She should be informed what that amount is and henceforth no one should protest. It is firmly established that each month my lord the parnas shall receive the prescribed amount and deliver it to her, if God wills. Salvation. 

 

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