[Business Letter to ʻArus ben Joseph, Fustat] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yitsḥaḳ ben Aharon Sigilmasi.

Contributor:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Yitsḥaḳ ben Aharon Sigilmasi--Correspondence.

Yitsḥaḳ ben Aharon Sigilmasi.

Abu Alifraḥ ʻArus ben Yosef--Correspondence.

Abu Alifraḥ ʻArus ben Yosef.

Silk industry--Egypt--History--To 1500.

Silk industry.

Judeo-Arabic letters.

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 along bottom; marginal postscript on recto

Paper 12.4 X 11.4 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: in mail format columns: lines: 14 extant (recto).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [12th century?]

Language Note:

Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

Verso bears the signature and address.

Published, with translation and notes, by M. Gil: Be-malkhut Yishmaʹel bi-teḳufat ha-Geʹonim / Moshe Gil. Tel Aviv University of Tel Aviv, 1997, v. 4, p. 403-404 (no. 735).

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, 607, 697, 714, 767, 785 and 786. In the address here the title Abu'l-Ifraḥ is added to his name.

The writer informs ʻArus of payments that he made for him. He reports on prices, including that of silk, and of the difficulty of sending currency overland. In the marginal postscript he sends regards to Abu ʻAli ben Solomon (Alashqar).

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 405

IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

1371177052