Letter: T-S NS J131

Letter T-S NS J131

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T-S NS J131
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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Letter from the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Natan (a.k.a. Avraham b. Natan) who is titled Ḥemdat ha-Qahal. Fragment (upper part only). Asking him to intervene in the strife of the Jewish glassmakers of al-Fayyūm (וכנת קד דכרת לה פי כתאבי אלמתקדם חאל אצחאבנא אלזגאגין אלדין באלפיום ומא אנסאק אלי קלבי מן המהם אולא ואכר וסאלתה ואנא אלאן אגדד סואלה אן יתוסט בינהם). Before this also mentions the wheat (qumūḥ) of the Fayyūm. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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al-Fayyūm

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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In PGP since 2017
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T-S NS J131 1r

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1r

T-S NS J131 1v

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1v
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