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| כתאבי +מולאי+ | Use a + sign before word to search for rows that contain all of them (in this case the words כתאבי and מולאי) |
| כתאבי AND מולאי כתאבי OR מולאי | The keyword AND indicates that both search terms must be present in the results. OR matches either search term. |
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| *כתאב ?כתאב |
Use an asterisk or a question mark as a wildcard. An asterix matches any number of characters. A question mark matches any single character |
T-S 16.273
Letter from Khalaf b. Mūsā (=Ḥalfon b. Moshe) al-Ḥaver al-Kohen on behalf of the whole congregation of "Ḥaṣer Adar" (חצר אדר). Saʿadya Gaʾon translates this biblical place name—along with חצור and חצרים—as Rafaḥ, which seems plausible here. Addressed to a dignitary whose genealogy ends with [...] b. Faraḥ b. Shalom(?) ha-Kohen. In Hebrew for the introduction and Judaeo-Arabic for the body. The address is written partially at the bottom of recto in Judaeo-Arabic and also on verso in Arabic script. The letter mentions the city of ʿAsqalān and various names such as Abū ʿImrān, Wuhayb b. Sahl, and Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm. It is large, but it is faded nearly beyond legibility (in some places it is legible only because the ink has completely faded and bleached the paper where it used to be). ASE
Library: CUL
Type: Letter
Tags:
cudl
