Letter: ENA 3733.1

Letter ENA 3733.1

Metadata

Shelfmark
ENA 3733.1
Primary Language
Hebrew

What's in the PGP

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Description

Business letter. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 16th century. Origin: Cairo (פה מצרים) in line 6. Mentions Shemuʾel b. ____[?] in the first legible line, but this is likely not the letter recipient/addressee. The port of Dimyāṭ (Damietta) is mentioned in line 5 in connection with a ship (ספינת). There are jottings and elaborate signatures on verso beneath a badly damaged address. One of the signatures may be Ḥayyīm ha-Kohen and the other is from a different scibe but is barely legible. The middle portion of the signature may contain the cursive word "Abi" (אבי), akin to "Abi Zimra" but it is unclear what the rest of the surname is afterwards. MCD.

Related Places

Mentioned
Damietta
Origin
Cairo

Additional metadata

Collection
Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA 3733, fol. 1; ENA 3733, f. 1
Input date
In PGP since 2017
Image
Transcription
Translation

ENA 3733.1 recto

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recto

ENA 3733.1 verso

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verso
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Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA 3733.1. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/11660/ (accessed December 14, 2025).