رسالة: Moss. Ia,18

الوصف

India Book VI, 28. Business letter in the hand of Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundār, in Aden, to ʿAydhāb, mentioning Yīṣḥaq al-Nafūsī and Hiba Ibn al-Dabbāgh (‘the tanner’), referring to ships and dinars (Information from CUDL.) [NB: PGP used to list this document as Moss. VI,28.] Same sender as T-S AS 155.101 (PGPID 17909), which refers to the same trip of Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī to al-Tīz with anticipation. ASE In this letter, that trip has occurred, but it has resulted in staggering losses for Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī. A ship carrying hides that Yiṣḥaq had sent from Aden had a third of its cargo confiscated by the ruler of al-Tīz. More hides were transported on another ship, which foundered on its way from Aden to Oman. The loss of that ship resulted in Yiṣḥaq losing hides and flax worth 1700 Malikī dīnārs. A merchant named Sālim b. Yefet and his son also perished in that wreck. In addition, Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī lost a shipment of sorghum (durra), iron and textiles sent from Bharuch because the ship was somehow destroyed even as it was being loaded with cargo. This letter contains the only known mention in the Geniza of flax shipped to the Indian Ocean world and of sorghum being shipped west from India. Al-Tīz, the main medieval port of Makrān, is also mentioned in IB I, 14 (PGPID 5358).