Letter: T-S AS 161.37

Description

Recto, with the address on verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic from an unidentified sender (his name might appear in the address) to Abū l-Riḍā Nissim b. Shemuel. After a prolonged and deferential introduction, the substance of the message begins five lines from the bottom. As he had been instructed, the sender went to Abū l-Karam and paid him a sum of dinars. Abū Saʿīd brought a letter from 'al-mukhtār.' Mentions a rubāʿī (quarter-dinar coin).The margin contains other details about other transactions, mentioning Khalaf. ُ The sender reports that he is living in al-Ṣāfiyya (in the Delta, on the Rosetta branch of the Nile). Much of the rest is too faded to read, but might become legible with multispectral imaging. Verso: Letter in Arabic script addressed to al-Qāḍī al-Ajall Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. al-Qāḍī al-Muwaffaq. The whole page is preserved but the document is too faded to read much. (Information in part from CUDL.) ASE