מכתב: T-S Ar.53.65

מכתב T-S Ar.53.65

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מספר מדף
T-S Ar.53.65
שפה עיקרית
Judaeo-Arabic

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תיאור

Recto (secondary use): Short letter from a teacher to a father. In Judaeo-Arabic. "This is to inform you my lord, the elder, may God make your honored position permanent, that Abū l-Ḥasan, after his transfer to my school, showed great zeal for study. His great misfortune was that Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wuhayb broke his board with the knowledge of the other boys. And peace." (Goitein's translation.)

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 53, fol. 65; TS Arabic Box 53, f. 65
תאריך קלט
In PGP since 1989
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T-S Ar.53.65 1r

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1r
S. D. Goitein, "Side Lights on Jewish Education from the Cairo Geniza," in Gratz College Anniversary volume (Gratz College, 1971), 83-110.
  1. אעלם מולאי אלשיך
  2. אדאם אללה עזה
  3. אן אבו אלחסן מא
  4. אנתקל אלא ועינה
  5. ללכתאב ואעטם
  6. מא עליה אבו אלחסן בן
  7. והיב קאם כסר לוחה
  8. בעלם אלצביאן ושלום
Ben Outhwaite, Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo (Cambridge University Library, 2017).

I would like to inform my lord the sheikh—God [Allah] preserve his strength!—that Abu ’l-Ḥasan, no sooner had he been given over [to my care] than his eye was on his schoolwork. But I have to inform [my lord] what happened to him: [another child called] Abu ’l-Ḥasan ibn Wuhayb rose up and broke his writing-board with the full knowledge of the other boys. Greetings.

Recto

  1. This is to inform you my lord, the elder,
  2. may God make your honored position permanent,
  3. that Abu ʾl-Ḥasan, after his
  4. transfer to my school,
  5. showed great zeal for study.
  6. His great misfortune was that Abu ʾl-Ḥasan b.
  7. Wuhayb broke his board
  8. with the knowledge of the other boys. And peace.  

T-S Ar.53.65 1v

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