Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. Yahaboy, probably in Amalfi, to a partner, in al-Mahdiyya. Dating: ca. 1040. Describes a long sea voyage that lasted …
. . . we suffered hardship and did not hear about the escape,1 for we came near to the cafpital] QasantIna (Constantinople). After we had cruised o...