Jewish Theological Seminary of America, ENA 4046.3
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ENA 4046.3
Jewish Theological Seminary of America (New York, USA)
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Letter in which the writer refers to notebooks of responsa that he would like copied by an expert scribe on good quality paper - not Egyptian paper, he says, but rather Andalusī (Spain) or Iṭrābulusī (Tripoli) paper.
- Book materials
- Letter
- Order to produce a copy
- Proofreading
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Vertical rectangle
Document
Content Description
Letter
Judeo-Arabic
recto
[...]
12. [...] ואן אלג֗ואב ען [...]
13. יחב ויותר וכן יהי רצון וע[תה מח]מד עינינו מ[...]
14. אדירנו המעולה דפאתר פיהא מ[כור]כות שאלות ען רבנו [...]
15. גאון ורבנו שמואל גאון וג֗ירהם מן אלגאונים זכ[ותם לעד]
right margin (from bottom to top)
1. [א]ליהא [ואחב] מן נכבדנו יחייהו
2. אלהינו באן ינט֗ר סופר מהיר
3. וישתרי לה ורק ג֗ייד לא מצרי
4. בל אנדלסי או אטראבלסי
5. קד כביר ויואקפה עלי נסך
6. אלכל וכלמא נסך כראסה
7. [...]יצחחהא והדה
[...]
recto
11. [...] it and that the answer
12. that you want and prefer and so be it and now,
13.
14.
right margin (from bottom to top)
1. To you and I will ask you, our honor, to smile
2. Our God, because you will look for a fast writer
3. And buy him good paper, not Egyptian
4. But Spanish or from Tripoli
5. whose format is large, and will help his writer to copy
6. everything and whenever he copies a quire
7. [...] proofread it, and this
[...]
Physical Description
227 mm
171 mm
1
Fragment of a leaf/sheet
The complete left part is missing.
Faded but legible
No
Paper
Brown-Grey
No pricking
No ruling
Text on recto and verso
1
Hebrew
Oriental
Cursive
2
No vowels or accents
Unbound
Bibliography
- Gil, Moshe, 1983, Palestine During the First Muslim Period (634-1099) (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, vol. 2, #371, pp. 687-688.
- Link to the shelfmark entry in the Princeton Genizah Project database: ENA 4046.3
