CUL, T-S K 25.230
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T-S K 25.230
CUL (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Document
- Letter
- Order to produce a copy
- Copy production
- Karaite
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Content Description
Letter
- Arabic
- Judeo-Arabic
1. رسمته من خطاب الشيخ ابى الفرج فرقان بن اسد الامر [...]
2. لاجل النسخ المعول فيه على ائتمامه فسلم الى جزاين من الكلام فى
3. العرووث برسم حضرته وذكر انه قد كان استاذنه دفعة بعد أخرى في
4. باب التفسير الذى كان التمس منه يظهر هل يوثره بخط عبراني
5. ام عربی فلم يرده جواب بما يعتمده فى ذلك وانه منتظر ما يرد به
6. الجواب ليعمل نسخته وهو يخصه باجل السلم واكرمه ويصف من
7. شوقه وزائد وحشته لحضرته ما لا يستوعب شرحه كتاب ولا يحتوى
8. عليه خطاب والله تعالى [...] ببقائه وبعـ[...]
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1. وانا شاكر لصحة وهو مواصل الـيـنـا عـلـلـى الـشـكر يخص حضرته المحـ[...]
- I noted it from the letter of the elder Abu Furqan ibn Asad, the matter [...]
- concerning the authoritative copy for it, and he delivered to me two parts of the treatise on
- kinship bars to marriage for your honour and he mentioned that he had time and again requested instructions from you
- regarding the commentary, which you commissioned from him, (asking) you to indicate whether you prefer it in Hebrew script
- or Arabic script, but you have not given him in reply any instructions for him to follow with regard to this. He is waiting to see what
- your reply is, so that he may start work on your copy. He conveys to you his most gracious greetings and speaks of
- his great longing for you, the description of which cannot be encompassed in a letter or contained
- in a missive. God, exalted is he, [...] your life[...]
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- I am grateful for the health [...] he is coming to us [...] thanks [...] he conveys to your honour [greetings].
[Translation from Geoffrey Khan (1993)]
11th Century CE
Physical Description
283 mm
220 mm
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Complete
Small part of the bottom left corner is missing
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Paper
Dark brown
No pricking
No ruling
- Text on recto and verso
- Long lines
1
- Change of script type
- Spaces between paragraphs
- Hebrew
- Arabic
Oriental
No vowels or accents
Unbound
Bibliography
- Khan, Geoffrey, 1993, "On the Question of Script in Medieval Karaite Manuscripts. New vidence from the Genizah", Bulletin of the John Rolands Library, 75, no. 3, pp. 133-42, pp. 133-134.
- Tirosh-Beker, Ofrah, 1999, Rabbinic Hebrew Handed down in Karaite Literature (in Hebrew), Doctoral diss., Jerusalem: Hebrew University, vol. 1, pp. 40-41.
- Tirosh-Beker, Ofrah, 2011, Ginze Ḥazal ba-sifrut ha-ḳarait bi-yeme ha-benayim, Jerusalem: Hebrew University, p. 55; 72.
- Link to the shelfmark entry in the Princeton Genizah Project database: T-S K25.230
