Letter: ENA NS I.38

Description

Letter from [Yiṣḥa?]q b. Yosef to Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. Related to the India trade. The addressee may appear also in T-S Ar.29.101 (PGPID 20228). The sender could be the same Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef as in ENA 2560.5 (PGPID 12276), but the handwriting is different. Uses the phrase ודמר אעדאה for "may God destroy your enemies," otherwise found only in the letters of Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq of Aden. The sender checked the accounting in the "tawqīʿ" (typically a term for a government decree/rescript but this appears to be a different usage) and confirms that the addressee still has a credit of 3 fīlīs and 2 fanams corresponding to 3 Malikī dinars. Also mentions 40 Egyptian mithqāls and the purchase of a specific commodity. In the margin there are greetings for Bakhtiyār and the faqīh. ASE