מכתב: ENA 1822a.64

תיאור

Letter addressed to Menaḥem the physician, in the horseshoers' market (fī al-musammirīn) in Fustat or New Cairo. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with the first five lines written in Arabic script. The sender conveys everyone's grief over the death of the addressee's mother. He says they have sent 10 letters with Mukhalliṣ the tax farmer, but they have received no response. He asks for small quantities of silk. Umm ʿAjam also asks for news and tells the addressee to return as soon as he has finished his work. "If we had known you would stay in Cairo for a year, we wouldn't have let you go." Greetings to family members and from ʿAjam and ʿIwāḍ. ASE