Letter: NLI 4°9463.8

Letter NLI 4°9463.8

Metadata

Shelfmark
NLI 4°9463.8
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic
Secondary Language
Arabic

Description

Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Alexandria, to Yosef b. Avraham. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentions items such as flax and a receipt/release (barāʾa). Mentions people such as Mūsā al-Isfāqusī (of Sfax), Abū Isḥāq Barhūn b. Maṣliaḥ (probably al-Tāhartī), and Abū Saʿīd. Contains numerous instructions about business transactions. Instructs the addressee to leave 4 loads of something in Sūsa (recto, 3 lines from the bottom), asks addressee to write to Sicily (=Palermo?), and mentions Barqa.(Information in part from NLI catalogue: https://www.nli.org.il/he/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH997007966690205171/NLI#$FL128464586.) OZ. ASE

Related People

Sender
Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī

Related Places

Mentioned
Sicily, Sūsa
Origin
Alexandria

Additional metadata

Collection
National Library of Israel
Historical shelfmarks
JNL 4°9463.8; JNUL 4°9463.8
Input date
In PGP since 2021
National Library of Israel, NLI 4°9463.8. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/34544/ (accessed February 9, 2026).