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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25730

Shelfmark:

Halper 405

Title:

Business Letter to ʻArus ben Joseph, Fustat

Letter

Author:

Yitsḥaḳ ben Aharon Sigilmasi

Yitsḥaḳ ben Aharon Sigilmasi Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Place:

Orient

Date:

12th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Material:

torn along bottom; marginal postscript on recto

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : torn along bottom; marginal postscript on recto

Note:

Verso bears the signature and address.
Published, with translation and notes, by M. Gil: Be-malkhut Yishmaʹel bi-teḳufat ha-Geʹonim / Moshe Gil. Tel Aviv University of Tel Aviv, 1997, v. 4, p. 403-404 (no. 735).
The addressee is known from other Genizah documents as a dealer in purple cloth. His Hebrew name is Abraham. See Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. I, p. 207, index.
Eight other articles of his mail have been published by Gil, ibid. nos. 467, 468, 607, 697, 714, 767, 785 and 786. In the address here the title Abu'l-Ifraḥ is added to his name.
The writer informs ʻArus of payments that he made for him. He reports on prices, including that of silk, and of the difficulty of sending currency overland. In the marginal postscript he sends regards to Abu ʻAli ben Solomon (Alashqar).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Personal correspondence

Egypt

Silk industry

Judeo-Arabic letters

History

Correspondence

To 1500

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