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- Judaeo-Arabic
From the circle of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis. Extremely faded. The beginning and ending are missing. All of recto and part of verso are narrated as secondhand reports ("he said... he said... he said..."). […]
The Mongols entered the narrator's city on Simḥat Torah and plundered it, taking captive al-Nasi al-Fakhr, his wife Sitt al-Ruʾasāʾ, his brothers, his sister, and his 2-year-old son. […]
Fustat?). Everything that al-Nasi al-Fakhr had, clothing or otherwise, has been lost.
Recto
- [. . .]
- ופי אלסוכה ג . . . . . . . וקע אלכלף ונצבו
- אלמנגליקאת עלי אלבלד יום שמחת תורה
- אכדו אלבלד ונהבוה ואכדוהם שבויים
- לה ולאכותה ולאכתה ולז…
The physician Barakāt, al-Tifʾeret, m[ay his Rock] p[reserve him], and the master the physician
al-Fāḍil. . . . [the . . .
of] the physicians. . . and other notables apart from them (16-20) approached me and proposed, “Let us obtain a rescript for you, and you will be our head and our judge and look after our affairs.”
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