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[Letter to Ali Abu'l-Ḥasan ben Saʻid "the banker" in the Matsatsa, Fustat] : manuscript.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ben ʹAmram, 9th/10th century.
- Language:
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Ali Abu'l-Ḥasan ben Saʻid, 9th/10th century--Correspondence.
- Ali Abu'l-Ḥasan ben Saʻid.
- Ben ʹAmram, 9th/10th century--Correspondence.
- Ben ʹAmram.
- Sugar trade--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Sugar trade.
- Wheat trade--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Wheat trade.
- Grapes.
- Fruit trade--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Fruit trade.
- History.
- Egypt.
- Genre:
- Personal correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
- Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
- Amram.
- Physical Description:
- 1 folio : torn, loss along left edge; folded mail format; marginal postscripts
- Paper 25.7 X 17.6 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: in mail format; wide left and upper margins, for postscript on recto; half width of verso used for marginal postscripts, written widthwise columns: 1 lines: 19 (recto), 13 (verso).
- Contained In:
- Cairo Genizah Collection
- Place of Publication:
- [Orient], [publisher not identified], [1100?]
- Language Note:
- Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew
- Notes:
- In the address, the family name of the addressee is ben al-Matsmudi, Tayib Almarb'aah (Doctor of the Square).
- The name of the writer is faded. He is in the service of the diggers of a canal for Abu'l-Munajjā. He asks Abu'l-Hassan to approach the Nagid, asking him to induce Abu'l-Munajjā to pay his accumulated salary, and requests to be relieved of his post.
- He mentions (l. 5)Bakhur ben Naṣr, a notable in Sahur (near Alexandria), and the refinement of sugar in Minya[t Ziftā] (l. 10).
- In the postscript in the margin he sends regards to acquaintances. On the verso, in the marginal postscript he asks that his family buy wheat and grapes and have them processed.
- About the neighborhood mentioned in the address, see Goitein, Mediterranean Society, vol. II, p. 264.
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Cited in:
- Halper, no. 395
- IMHM, no. F38400
- OCLC:
- 249591148
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