Halper 405 Business Letter to 'Arus ben Joseph, Fustat
Title
Business Letter to 'Arus ben Joseph, FustatAuthors
- Yitsḥaḳ ben Aharon Sigilmasi
Call number
Halper 405(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
12th century?
- Place
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Orient
Notes
- 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 'Arus 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 'Ali ben Solomon (Alashqar).
- Condition: torn along bottom; marginal postscript on recto.
Extent
12.4 X 11.4 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
- Silk industry , History , To 1500 , Egypt
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