Letter: Bodl. MS heb. b 3/29

Description

Letter from Farajallāh to the judge al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Naṣrallāh. In Judaeo-Arabic with occasional Hebrew and with the address in Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 14th century. The letter deals with the complicated legal case of R. Ḥasday, which the sender already described in a previous letter and repeats here. Ḥasday had made a deposit in ʿAqraba (near Nāblus?) but there was no record of it in the daftar, and the depositee died and the deposit was lost. There follows a very convoluted story. The sender refers to his main opponent as ʿAmaleq. Also mentions Amīn al-Dīn; ʿAbd al-Dā'im, Ibn Ḥabashī; the arrival of somebody from Cairo; Ibn Fayrūz; Ibn al-Fallāḥa; Saʿdallāh al-Ḥalabī; Ṣadaqa al-Ṣayrafī; Mūsā; Ajīr b. Fayrūz; al-Ḥanbalī. The sender gets to his request from the addressee and from Sayyidnā Moshe ha-Ṣefati about halfway through the text on verso (where the writing becomes larger). He wants them not to permit somebody (presumably "ʿAmaleq") access to something. He concludes with updates on various other matters the addressee had asked/ordered him about. Needs further examination.