University of Pennsylvania, Halper 399
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS26064
- Shelfmark:
- Halper 399
- Title:
- Business Letter to ʻArus ben Yosef, Fustat
- Place:
- Alexandria
- Date:
- 1100?
- Language:
- Judeo-Arabic
- Material:
- torn, faded
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 folio : torn, faded
- Note:
- Exceeding words cramped between lines; verso contains only the signature and address, but has a secondary inscription of a few notes.
The addressee is known from other Genizah documents as a dealer in purple cloth. His Hebrew name is Abraham. See Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. I p. 207, index. Eight other articles of his mail have been published by Gil, ibid. nos. 467, 468, 697, 714, 735, 767, 785 and 786.
The writer is making sure that the addressee received a sum of money that he brought from Maghreb, although he would have preferred to take out a suftaja in Fustat and receive its equivalent in Alexandria. He was unable to read the previous letter from ʻArus. He sends regards to Abul'Hussein, and his mentor Abu'l-Ifraḥ ʻArus ben Joseph.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420783503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3gq6rm3g/manifest
- Holding Institution:
