מכתב: ENA 3616.10

תיאור

Letter from Khayr b. Yūsuf Ibn S[...] to Abū l-Ḥasan Mevorakh, in Fustat. The letter is to be delivered to Fusṭāṭ, al-Murabbaʿa, the shop of Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Ḥasan. The letter is in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Opens with blessings for the addressee's sons Abū ʿAlī Yefet and Abū l-Makārim Nadiv. Conveys congratulations for the holiday. The sender ran into his cousin (ibn ʿamm) Yūsuf—the bearer of the present letter—on Saturday and was very distressed on his account. There is a postscript on verso in a different hand: "The bearer of this letter, Abū Shahwān, is our neighbor, and we are distressed on his account." The addressee is instructed to give him a dinar's worth of saffron and a dinar's worth of "qarāṭīs."