Letter: Bodl. MS heb. c 28/17

Description

Letter from Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq to Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen (also called ha-Talmid ha-Navon Segan ha-Kohanim). In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter begins with condolences upon the death of the addressee's cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū Isḥāq. It seems that the addressee was owed money by the deceased and that the addressee has been mistreated by the people of the Rīf, such as Ibn Yeshuʿa. The sender has paid or sent שמשאר (boxwood? or the fee of the broker?) to Abū Saʿd b. Hiba(?) and awaits confirmation of receipt. He has received news from travelers about trouble with the judge (qāḍī) of Tyre and the Quṭūrī amir (Quṭūr is in the Nile Delta, near al-Maḥalla). The Nagid intervened to help resolve the situation. The lower part of the letter is missing.