Letter: Moss. VII,17

Letter Moss. VII,17

Shelfmark: Moss. VII,17
Editors: S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, Ḥalfon the Traveling Merchant Scholar : Cairo Geniza Documents‎ (in Hebrew) (2013), vol. 4.

Primary Language: Arabic

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Description

Verso, with the address on recto: Business letter addressed to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Arabic script. Dating: Before the beginning of 1136 CE, as that is when Ḥalfon departed Egypt for the west, and when he returned in 1139 CE his brother (here greeted as النازر/al-Nezer) was already dead. Concerning business in goods such as sal ammoniac and turpeth, and mentions a public auction (ḥalqa) several times. (Information in part from Aodeh; see also Hebrew description from Goitein and Friedman, India Book IV.) Ḥalfon reused recto for a draft of a legal document (see separate record). [In the margins of recto there are remnants of an earlier state document in Arabic script, referring to the amīr Sayf al-Dawla and the date 24 Jumādā II 527 AH = 2 May 1133 CE. Therefore, the later reuses (the Arabic letter and the Judaeo-Arabic legal draft) can be dated to between May 1133 CE and the beginning of 1136 CE. YU/ASE.]

Edition: Goitein, S. D.; Friedman, Mordechai Akiva

Edition: Goitein, S. D.; Friedman, Mordechai Akiva

Moss. VII,17 1v

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Transcription

S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, Ḥalfon the Traveling Merchant Scholar : Cairo Geniza Documents‎ (in Hebrew) (Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 2013), vol. 4.

Verso:

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وصلت رقعة مولاي الشيخ أطال الله بقاه
ولا تسال ما لحقنا من مفارقتك وعلى انزعاجك
الحمد لله تعالى الذي كانت العاقبة الى خير واما
من امر النشاذر جميعه فقد ابعته لك جميعه
وقد جا وزنه خمسة وخمسين رطل وقد ابعته لك
من حساب خمسة وعشرين دينار ونصف المية
وامّا غير ذلك فان يوسف في الحلقة فاذا خرج
ان شا الله من الحلقة عليه الحرص في نجازهم لو يعدلهم
والتربد والتربد فما يخلوهم يقعدو في الدكان
للاجل يوم حلقة فاذا فعل وحرصت ان شا الله
في بيعهم وانا اجتمع ان شا الله بابراهيم واحرص
في اخذ الذهب منه وانفذه لك وان كان ما
فرغه طلعت به لك فاعلمك جميع ما يكون
والله الله <لا> تقطع ان شا الله عني أخبارك وما انت عليه

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وتعرفني جميع ما تحتاج من ذهب او حاجة او دراهم او اي حاجة كانت لك ترفني بها

Moss. VII,17 1r

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Recto - address

وحضرته مخصوصة باتم سلام
ومولاي النازر باتم سلام

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