Letter: BL OR 5542.21

Letter BL OR 5542.21

Metadata

Shelfmark
BL OR 5542.21
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

Description

Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to the merchant Abū l-Fakhr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Fakhr had asked Shelomo how much he should pay him every day, evidently for working as an assistant in his shop. Shelomo responds that he is only asking for the standard rate that the boys (ṣibyān, ghilmān) in the shops (dakākīn) receive, and he defers to Abū l-Fakhr to pay what is fair.

Additional metadata

Collection
British Library
Historical shelfmarks
BM Or 5542, fol. 21; BM; BM Or 5542, f. 21
Input date
In PGP since 2017
British Library, BL OR 5542.21. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/6219/ (accessed June 6, 2026).