מכתב: Geneva 121

תיאור

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably from Damīra or Tinnīs to Fustat. Mercantile. The writer reports on the vicissitudes of purchasing flax and cotton in Damīra, Damietta, and Sunbāṭ. The writer has been unable to hire a boat in Damīra, but wishes to return to Fustat as soon as he is able to do so. He asks the addressee to send three thiyāb to Fustat for him along with the thawb that the addressee bought in Caesarea. On verso he gives updates on various associates and rivals including Ibn Saḥqūn, who received lashes (this name appears also in ENA NS 77.372 (PGPID 4554), perhaps a diminutive of Isḥāq). The sender refers to himself as the "brother" of the addressee and also asks him to convey greetings to "the father" Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva, as well as to "the bothers" and Bū Saʿīd.