Scholarship on Letter: T-S 13J28.24

Letter T-S 13J28.24
  1. Bibliographic citation
    S. D. Goitein's unpublished edition (1950–85), with minor emendations by Alan Elbaum, 2022, available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/8048/.
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    S. D. Goitein, unpublished index cards (1950–85), #10756. Princeton Geniza Lab, Princeton University.
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  3. Bibliographic citation
    S. D. Goitein's unpublished edition (1950–85).
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  4. Bibliographic citation
    Yusuf Umrethwala's digital translation (2026), available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/8048/.
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T-S 13J28.24 1r

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1r
S. D. Goitein's unpublished edition (1950–85), with minor emendations by Alan Elbaum, 2022.

Recto:

  1. ב שלום רב וגו יתן לך כלבביך וגו
  2. الولد العزيز الشيخ الاجل المهذب الموفق اسعد الله جده
  3. وقرن بالتوفيق حله وعقده مخدوم بافضل سلام واعلمه دامت
  4. معاليه انني قد سيرت له عدة كتب اعلمته فيها ان لم يصلني فيه سوى
  5. كتابين وانني في كل اسبوع اسير اليه عدة كتب وما اعلم هل
  6. تصل ام لا ولا تسل ما كان جرى على قلبنا كلما سمعنا ان المولا
  7. مريض وما انبسط قلبنا وسكن روعنا الا في هذه الايام
  8. وانا قد [[اخلينا]] //اخلينا// الحانوت كما رسم والبغلة بخير وبغلتي ابعتها
  9. بعشرين دينار دينار في كل شهر وسليمان قال انهم اخذوا
  10. منه الشهر واحاله الكاتب على بن شراقي وهذا الذي جرى
  11. واخوك بكل نعمة ويجري جميعنا في نعمة الله سبحانه ما نعدم سوى
  12. النظر اليك ومسير هذه الاحرف هذا الصبي ولد
  13. السيخ بو الفتوح التنوري حرق عليه سلة بسبب دابة
  14. اشتراها للشيخ ابي الرضا وشاهدوا عليه واخذوا
  15. الدابة والثمن وال . . . . . . يسل المولا ان يامر
  16. ناصر الدولة برغش

Recto, margin:

  1. المقطع لمسيره
  2. بان يخلصه ولا يتعرض له
  3. احد ويوخذ دابته(؟) او ذهبه(؟)
  4. وان تعلم ما يجب من حق المولا الشيخ
  5. الريس ابو الرضا لان هذا
  6. اذا(؟) تكرر(؟) عليه الامر
  7. . . . . . . . . . . . 
Yusuf Umrethwala's digital translation (2026).

Recto

  1. [Hebrew:] With abundant peace, etc. May He grant you all your heart’s desires, etc.
  2. The dear son, the most distinguished shaykh, the refined and successful—may God make his fortune felicitous
  3. and join success to all his undertakings—our honored master, with the most excellent greetings. Let him know—may his exalted rank endure—
  4. that I have sent him several letters in which I informed him that I have received from him no more
  5. than two letters. Each week I send him several letters, yet I do not know whether
  6. they reach him or not. You cannot imagine what passed through my heart each time we heard that our master
  7. was ill; our hearts found no ease, nor our anxiety any calm except in these past days.
  8. I have vacated the shop as instructed. The mule is well, and I have sent off my mule for
  9. twenty dinars—[to be paid] one dinar each month. Sulaymān said that they took from him the [payment for] the month, and the clerk referred him to Ibn Shirākī. This is what has occurred.
  10. Your brother remains in every blessing, and all of us continue in the bounty of God, exalted be He. We lack nothing except
  11. the sight of you. The bearer of this letter is a young boy, the son
  12. of Shaykh Abū al-Futūḥ al-Tannūrī. A charge was brought against him concerning a basket, on account of an animal
  13. he had purchased for Shaykh Abū al-Riḍā. Witnesses testified against him, and they seized
  14. the animal, the price, and what was intended. It is requested of our master that he command Nāṣir al-Dawla Barghash,

Recto margin

  1. the owner of the iqṭāʿ, upon the arrival of this note,
  2. to secure his release, that no one should harrass him,
  3. and that his animal—or his money—be restored to him.
  4. And that you know of what is due, by right, to our master Shaykh
  5. al-Raʾīs Abū al-Riḍā; for if this matter
  6. is repeated against him […].

T-S 13J28.24 1v

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1v

Verso:

  1. ولا تبقي مجهود في حق هذا الصبي اكراما للمولا الشيخ
  2. ابو الرضا ادام الله عزه وما احتاج اوكد عليك في ذلك
  3. فانت تعرف تفضل المولا الشيخ ابو الرضا وحقوق والده
  4. وحقوقه وسيما والد هذا الصبي وسلم

Verso, address:

  1. الشيخ الاجل المهذب ابي الفتوح المتطبب في الدار ال . . .
  2. في الباطلية                          . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Verso

  1. Do not spare any effort on behalf of this boy, in honor of our master Shaykh
  2. Abū al-Riḍā—may God perpetuate his glory. There is no need for me to press you further in this matter,
  3. for you know well the benevolence of our master Shaykh Abū al-Riḍā, and the rights owed to his father
  4. and to himself—especially [in light of] the father of this boy.

Verso address

  1. Al-Shaykh ʾal-Ajal al-Muhazzib Abī l-Futūḥ al-Mutaṭabbib in the house....[
  2. in al-Bāṭiliyya
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