Letter: T-S H15.144

Description

Recto is a long piyyuṭ. Verso contains an extremely faded text block in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly documentary. At 180 degrees to this there are some names, including the phrase "from Ṣāliḥ b. Yosef b. Khalfa al-Maghribī"; the line underneath has the name of one of his brothers (" . . b. Yosef al-Maghribī b. Khalfa"); the line underneath that begins "May God in His mercy. . ." (אללה ברחמתה. . .). There was a well-known Maghribī merchant Yosef b. Khalfa active in the mid-11th century. This might be the address of a letter based on the "from" before Sāliḥ's name.