מכתב: T-S 8J19.21

תיאור

Recto: Lower part of an incomplete letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Isḥāq and then describes a quiet apartment which has been obtained for the addressee: "The place which I have taken is in the alley near the house of Ibn Rajāʾ, inside, before you get to the roofed passage of Ibn Rajāʾ, on the righthand side. It is an apartment over another one. There is no one else with you in the apartment, and the people in the house underneath are strangers who keep to themselves and don't poke their noses into anyone's business, and no one has to fear them, such that not a single word that you say will be overheard, except that they are women(?)." Verso: list of commodities such as saffron and wax, with Hebrew numerals. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)