Letter: ENA NS 54.10

Letter ENA NS 54.10

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Shelfmark
ENA NS 54.10

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Historical shelfmarks
ENA NS 54, f. 10; ENA NS 54, fol. 10
Input date
In PGP since 2017

Description

Letter in Hebrew from Safed to Cairo (מצרים) in Hebrew. Addressed to Yeshūʿa[?] al-Mātī[?] from Eliyahu Medina[?], both names are not entirely clear. The letter sender mentions a certain Yeshūʿa Ben-Moreno in the opening lines and then R. Shelomo in ll. 11 in connection with a sum of Ottoman sultani in l. 12. In the lower left corner there is final note mentioning a certain Mordekhay ʿUraybī. Based on the paleography and the currency mentioned this letter is likely 16th-17th-century. MCD.

ENA NS 54.10 1

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ENA NS 54.10 2

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