רשומה קשורה ל-מכתב: T-S Ar.39.471

מכתב T-S Ar.39.471
  1. ציטוט
    Jane Hathaway, Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah (Open Book Publishers, 2026).
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Jane Hathaway, Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah (Open Book Publishers, 2026).

Recto, main text

  1. [Devletl]ü sulṭānım ḥażretler[inin?]

  2. [    ]-i bī-şümār ümīdi olunduḳdan ṣoñra, żamīr-i münīr-i mihr-tenvīr ve ḫaṭīr-i ʿaṭīr-i Müşterī [    ]

  3. //eğer// deryā-yı mürüvvetleri temevvüc ve tefevvüc idüb, cānib-i devlet-ḫvāhları ḳıbelinden [su]ʾāl [buyurılursa]

  4. sulṭānımın ʿulüvv-i himmet-i ʿālīyeleri berekātıyla ṣıḥḥat ve ʿāfiyet ü[zere?] [     ]

  5. Ṣāḥib-i devlet efendimiz ḥażretlerinin ḥāk-ı pāy-ı şerīflerine yüz sürü[b] [     ]

  6. reyb ü gümān buyurılmaya. Benim sulṭānım, ʿilm-i şerīf-i ʿālem-ārālarına [     ]

  7. Yehūdīlerinden olub, ḳadīmī bu bende-i devlet-ḫvāhınızın dosti olan Ḫāḫām Şemvāl nām Yehūdī [     ]

  8. üzere Ḳuds-i Şerīf’e ziyāreti niyetiyle meşyen ʿale’l-vech olcāniblere revāne olub, gitmişlerdir. Varaḳa-yı bende-i [     ]

  9. vuṣūli müyesser olub, yüz sürdükde sulṭānımın ḳatre-i himmet ve şemme-i şefḳatların mebzūl buyurılub, üzerine [     ]

  10. şefḳatları bī-dirīġ buyurılub, menāzil ve merāḥilde rencīde itmeyüb, maḥall-i maḳṣūdına irsāl itmek [     ]

  11. temennā ve ricā olunur. Mercūdur ki bu ḫuṣūṣda zerre-i mürüvvetleri mebzūl buyurıla ve sulṭānımın luṭf-ı cemīllerinden [     ]

  12. zāt-ı melik-ṣıfātlarının ṣıḥḥat aḫbārı, ve bu bende-i devlet- ḫvāhlarına müteʿallıḳ olan ḫizmet-i şerīflerine mektū[b]

  13. merġūblarıyla işāret-i şerīfe buyuralar ki edāsı cāna minnet olub, ṣıḥḥat aḫbārınuz ʿıṭṭ[ilā] [     ]

  14. nüzhet ve sürūr ḥāṣıl idüği muḳarrer ve muḥaḳḳaḳdır. Bāḳī ne taḥrīr olunur ki ʿilm-i şerīflerine lāḥik olmaya [     ]

  15. Müyesser ve muḥaṣṣal bād. Fī 20 Ṣ[afer] sene 1024. Ṣaḥḥ. 

Recto, right margin

  1. Ve mezbūr ḳulları ḥaḳḳında

  2. Ḳuds-i Şerīf yollarına ḫiṭāben

  3. tezkere-yi şerīfleri ʿināyet buyurılursa,

  4. cānib-i devlet-ḫvāhlarına iṭmīnān-ı ʿaẓīme olduġuna

  5. iştibāh buyurılmaya. Bāḳī mürüvvet şāh luṭfundur.

Jane Hathaway, Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah (Open Book Publishers, 2026).

Recto, main text

  1. [To his excellency] my esteemed lord ______________________

  2. After having set numberless hopes on [    ], the luminous, sun-like conscience and the fragrant, Jupiter-like influence [    ]

  3. //if// the sea of [your] munificence were to swell and boil up, causing you to ask how the well-wisher [i.e., the writer] is, [then praise be to God],

  4. due to the divine blessings that stem from the loftiness of

    my lord’s favour, I am healthy and vigorous [    ].

  5. I rub my face in the noble dust [beneath the feet] of his excellency the possessor of good fortune [i.e., the official to whom the letter is addressed] [    ];

  6. let there be no doubt or suspicion [about my loyalty and friendship to you]. My lord, [let it not escape] your noble, world-adorning knowledge [that] [    ]

  7. one of the [    ] Jews who has long been this slave the well- wisher’s [i.e., the writer’s] friend, a Jew named Rabbi Samuel[    ],

  8. desiring to visit holy Jerusalem, to that end has set out on

    foot [probably meaning ‘by land’] for those parts. This let- ter of the slave [i.e., the writer] [    ]

  9. when he arrives and rubs his face [on the ground before you], it is desired and requested that my lord will spend a droplet of his favour and a fraction of his compassion [on Samuel] [    ].

  10. May you not withhold your compassion; may no one harm him on the various stages of his journey, and send [him] to his intended destination [    ].

  11. It is requested that, in this matter, you spend a speck of your generosity and your beautiful munificence [     ]

  12. the news of the health of your kingly-virtued self, and the noble services related to this slave the well-wisher [i.e., the writer][     ]

  13. indicate with a [     ] letter so that carrying out [these ser- vices] will be a favour to the soul. Hearing news of your health [     ]

  14. is certain and sure to bring pleasure and delight. What re- mains to be written that might add to your noble knowledge? [     ]

  15. Let it [the letter] be successful and received. [Written] on 20 Ṣ[afar] in the year 1024 [29 March 1615]. Verified.

Recto, right margin

  1. Concerning the aforementioned servant [of yours],
  2. if you were to grant a noble document
  3. addressed to [all the stages] on the road to Jerusalem the noble,
  4. have no doubt that it would be a great relief to the well-wisher [i.e., the writer].
  5. Munificence is the lord’s pleasure.
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