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Yevr.-Arab. II 1415

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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to two unknown addressees. Dated: Elul 1524 Seleucid = 1213 CE. The writer requests a rapid response "to that which was indicated." Goitein describes this document as an instruction by order of Avraham Maimonides to help a needy man. His handwritten edition includes the note 'in the handwriting of Avraham Maimonides,' l. 10. On verso a poem, probably by the hand of Moshe b. Levi Halevi (AA)

Editor: Ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/6E.2.2%20Leningrad/RNL%20Firk.%20II%20NS%201415%20%28PGPID%202715%29.pdf.

Library: NLR

Type: Letter

Tags: avraham maimonides

1 יחצר ויכרג ממא ילזמה פלתגתהדו

2 פי דלך ותפעלו פיה חסב אלמשהור

3 מן מרותכם ואלמעלום מן עטים

4 נכותכם וירד גואבכם אלינא במא יחצל

5 מן גואב אלמשאר אליה ובמא יתקרר

6 מעה ממא יעתמד עליה ונסאל מן

7 אללה תע עלי דלך תעטים אגרהמא

8 ואסבאג נעמה עליהמא ויגעלהמא

9 מקצד לכל כיר ולכל מתובה באימא

10 וכן יהי רצון ושלומם ירבה

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