Scholarship on Letter: T-S NS J389

Letter T-S NS J389
  1. Bibliographic citation
    S. D. Goitein, unpublished index cards (1950–85), #12171. Princeton Geniza Lab, Princeton University.
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  2. Bibliographic citation
    Mark Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2005).
    Location in source
    • #54
    • no. 54
    Relation to document
    • Digital Translation
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T-S NS J389 1r

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Mark Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2005).

Recto

  1. Truth
  2. I kiss the ground before and inform my master [...]
  3. the honored Dignitary, the wise and discerning, physicia[n], C[rown]
  4. of the Sages and Physicians, may God bless you
  5. and protect you and give you long life and lengthen your days with goodness
  6. and your [y]ears with pleasantness, and give you a son living
  7. and strong. I inform you that your slave is experiencing adversity on account of sickness
  8. and dearth and lack of income, as well as nakedness.
  9. Your slave req[uests] that you give charity to your slave [and that]
  10. you collect for me a pesiqa of charity, from you and from the congrega[tion]
  11. that prays at your house. May God open up for us and you
  12. His good treasury and His full and wide hand.
  13. Do not turn your slave away disappointed. May you be charitable
  14. toward your slave [at a]ll times. And peace.
  15. Truth  

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