رسالة: ENA 3733.1

الوصف

Business letter. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 16th century. Origin: Cairo (פה מצרים) in line 6. Mentions Shemuʾel b. ____[?] in the first legible line, but this is likely not the letter recipient/addressee. The port of Dimyāṭ (Damietta) is mentioned in line 5 in connection with a ship (ספינת). There are jottings and elaborate signatures on verso beneath a badly damaged address. One of the signatures may be Ḥayyīm ha-Kohen and the other is from a different scibe but is barely legible. The middle portion of the signature may contain the cursive word "Abi" (אבי), akin to "Abi Zimra" but it is unclear what the rest of the surname is afterwards. MCD.