מכתב: ENA NS I.76

תיאור

Letter. Faded. Addressed to Abū l-Majd. It may be from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that he met with Ibn Bū l-Zakkār; mentions Sayyidnā al-Rayyis; and reports that Hilāl (perhaps Meir's brother of the same name) honored him with his son Maʿānī (perhaps by hiring him as a teacher). At the bottom of recto there is a cryptic passage about someone who said, "You are one of us. We will not reveal our secret to anyone except you. Then when I saw that the matter was going to end badly, I wrote it...." The text in the margin is difficult to read but ends with the sender's distress over "the state of [your] sister." He elaborates on verso, "she is wretched, like a phantom on the bed (cf. ENA 4020.49). . . and the old woman (presumably her mother) is there with her and in even greater distress on account of the sorrow and the poverty, may God look upon them [and have mercy]." These may be the same women who are very sick in T-S 8J22.31. The continuation mentions a funduq and Abū l-Rabiʿ Sulaymān. ASE