מכתב: Bodl. MS heb. c 28/62

תיאור

Letter from Moshe b. Yefet/Ḥasan to the ḥaver ʿEli b. ʿAmram. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting that Mufarrij b. Ḥusayn b. Shuʿayb (cf. Bodl. MS heb. d 75/17 (PGPID 6492)) appointed Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yosef b. ʿAbdallāh over his business affairs abroad. It is not immediately clear if this was a will or merely an appointment of an agent. The six witnesses to the appointment: Wuhayb b. Ḥasan; Efrayim b. Abū Yaʿqūb; Ṣāʿid b. [...]; [...] b. Sulaymān; Moshe b. Ḥasan (the scribe of this letter); and Shelomo b. Ḥasan. On verso (apart from the completion of the letter and the address), there are two additional validations, confirming that the sender of the letter, Moshe b. Yefet, came and confirmed that the letter was in his own handwriting. The first is written and signed by Zarʿa b. ʿAmram and the second by Yaḥyā(?) b. ʿAmram ha-Levi. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)