رسالة: Moss. Ia,17

رسالة Moss. Ia,17

العلامات

الوصف

Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Menashshe b. David al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender might be Faraḥ b. Yūsuf al-Qābisī (the usual correspondent of Yehuda b. Menashshe). Dating: Second half of the 11th century. Mercantile letter concerning the trade in commodities such as pepper and mentioning Abū Saʿd and traders from al-Andalus. Mentions the geographical area of Jazāʾir al-Qurashī (also mentioned in T-S 16.13) and awaiting a group of people called al-Fīshāniyyīn or al-Fayshāniyyīn (also mentioned in Sassoon 713). At the end, asks for news of a young woman (al-ṣabiyya) and marriage. Needs further examination. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script. Someone apparently owes 900 of something. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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