Scholarship on Letter: T-S 13J34.9

Recto

1. In y(our name, Oh) Merc(iful).     From Umm Da'u'd, your paternal aunt.

2. You are the fairest of the sons of man.

3. Blessed is the man who ( trusts in the Lord).

4. Blessed shall you be when you come in.

5. To his excellency, my lord, the great and illustrious physician,

6. the elder Abu Zikri, may God lengthen his life and not

7. deprive him of the best of fortune; may God bring us together soon -

8. not after a long while - God on high willing. I should like to inform

9. my lord, the elder Abu Zikri, that we

10. had a great joy in your absence. For, by the grace of the God

11. of Israel, there came to your servant Sitt al-Yumn a great joy in the presence of

12. our lord the Nasi'. It was a beautiful wedding

13. on a beautiful dai's. We had on top of it, our lord the Nasi'

14. and our lord the judge, and our lord R. Samuel and the bridegroom

15. Hibat Alla'h son of the teacher Futu'h' Ibn al- Amma'ni'.

16. May God vindicate you by your daughter, Amen. Now, our master,

17. we ask that you - being so gracious - speak to the elder Abu

18. 'l-Karam Ibn al-Siqilli' about the matter of the eighteen dirhems.

19. Greet for me your father, R. Elijah.

20. The world is no good when you are absent. May your welfare increase and not diminish.

Verso

1. Now, my elder Abu Zikri, ask the advice of your mother together with

2. the daughter of Khuraym and say (to them), have a new basket made

3. and put the porcelain bowls in it. Then say again,

4. what happened to the turban. Here is a turban

5. waiting. It is already superfluous. By your life,

6. I haven't deemed the much excessive in order that we would deem the little

7. excessive.

Address

1. May (this letter) arrive at Cairo the guarded, and handed to the son of R.

2. Elljah, the elder Abu Zikri. And peace.