رسالة: T-S 13J15.5

الوصف

Letter from Mūsa b. Yaʿqūb, in Damascus, to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd b. Shaʿya (aka Yosef b. David), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. The sender states that he issued two bills of exchange on Yūsuf’s account for 250 dinars and gave them to Ibn Hazar as a prepayment on paper that contains the watermark of one Ibn Imām, a Damascus-based paper maker (Gil, Palestine I:235). Mūsa writes also that he turned over camel loads to Salāma b. Jaysh the week prior. Mūsa requests in the letter sixty golden boxes, to be packed with leather bottles, and sent to him immediately in a warship; along with a container of flax oil and information about the price of borage ("oxtongue"). (S. D. Goitein, Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders, 89–91.) EMS