Letter: AIU VII.E.148

Description

Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The sender reports that he previously sent a letter from Damietta but did not receive a response; he chastises the addressee and asks for a letter. Greetings to Abū l-Afrāḥ. The address includes partial names: [...]BT al-Ḥarīrī, Yoshiyya b. Yosef al-Dhahabī, and possibly ʿArūs (which could match the Abū l-Afrāḥ on recto). Verso contains accounts of "what I sold in Damietta." Mentions commodities such as oil and silk and people such as "my father" and Ibn al-Dabbāgh (tanner) and al-Ṣāniʿ (craftsman).