Halper 399 Business Letter to 'Arus ben Yosef, Fustat
Title
Business Letter to 'Arus ben Yosef, FustatAuthors
- Nisim ben Benaya, 11th/12th cent.
Call number
Halper 399(Philadelphia, United States, University of Pennsylvania, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Cairo Genizah Collection)
Alternate identifiers
Publisher
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies LibraryLanguage
Judeo-ArabicOrigin
1100?
- Place
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Alexandria
Notes
- Exceeding words cramped between lines; verso contains only the signature and address, but has a secondary inscription of a few notes; 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, 697, 714, 735, 767, 785 and 786; The writer is making sure that the addressee received a sum of money that he brought from Maghreb, although he would have preferred to take out a suftaja in Fustat and receive its equivalent in Alexandria. He was unable to read the previous letter from 'Arus. He sends regards to Abul'Hussein, and his mentor Abu'l-Ifraḥ 'Arus ben Joseph.
- Condition: torn, faded.
Extent
24.1 X 11 cmSupport
PaperLayout
Decoration
Black ink
Script
Provenance
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
- Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
- Amram.
Subjects topical
- Commercial correspondence, Judeo-Arabic
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