Letter: T-S Ar.39.76

Letter T-S Ar.39.76

Metadata

Shelfmark
T-S Ar.39.76
Primary Language
Arabic

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Description

Business letter in Arabic script. Somewhat crude hand. The sender urges the addressee to purchase 1/2 dinar's worth of Aleppan textiles and 1/4 dinar's worth of purple (arjuwān) textiles. The addressee might be Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef (Aodeh makes this identification and also suggests that the sender is Avraham b. Hillel, cf. T-S Ar.41.108); the Judaeo-Arabic accounts on verso should be checked against ʿArūs's handwriting.

Related People

Recipient
Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef

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Additional metadata

Provenance
Geniza
Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 39, fol. 76; TS Arabic Box 39, f. 76
Input date
In PGP since 2019
Image
Transcription
Translation

T-S Ar.39.76 1r

°
1r

T-S Ar.39.76 1v

°
1v
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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S Ar.39.76. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/21005/ (accessed October 16, 2026).