2 options
[Letter to Judah ben Moses ben Sujmar of Fustat] : manuscript.
Library at the Katz Center - Genizah Fragments Halper 414
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salamah ben Musa ben Yitsḥaḳ.
- Language:
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Salamah ben Musa ben Yitsḥaḳ--Correspondence.
- Salamah ben Musa ben Yitsḥaḳ.
- Abu Zekharyah Yehudah ben Mosheh--Correspondence.
- Abu Zekharyah Yehudah ben Mosheh.
- Taxes, Farming of.
- Jews--Italy--Sicily--History--To 1500.
- Jews.
- Jews--Italy--Mazara del Vallo--History--To 1500.
- Normans--Mediterranean Region--Influence.
- Normans.
- Indigo industry--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Indigo industry.
- Flax industry--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Flax industry.
- Commercial correspondence, Judeo-Arabic.
- History.
- Sfax (Tunisia)--Commerce--History--To 1500.
- Sfax (Tunisia).
- Egypt.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Italy--Mazara del Vallo.
- Italy--Sicily.
- Genre:
- Personal correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
- Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
- Sulzberger.
- Physical Description:
- 1 folio : damaged; verso is blank
- Paper 15.5 X 19 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 20 (recto).
- Contained In:
- Cairo Genizah Collection
- Place of Publication:
- [Mazara, Sicily.], [publisher not identified], [1064?]
- Language Note:
- Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew
- Notes:
- The writer, Solomon is an established sea merchant who has a high volume of international trade.
- He is writing to his business partner not long after a previous letter, found above no. 389 (M. Ben-Sasson: Yehude Sitsilyah, 825-1068 / Menahem Ben-Sasson. Jerusalem : Mekhon Ben-Tsevi, 1991, p. 65-88, no. 12; M. Gil, Be-Malkhut Yishmaʾel bi-teḳufat ha-Geʾonim / Mosheh Gil. University of Tel Aviv, 1997, v. 4, p. 453-474, no.751), in which Solomon threatened to break up the partnership with Judah, amid political instability in his home port of Sfax, which caused him difficulty and losses, but is willing to absorb the losses, and to consider the continuation of the partnership.
- Although there is an upper margin here, this is not the beginning of the letter, neither is it folded or addressed in mail format. Notwithstanding Goitein (Mediterranean Society vol. I, pp. 440), this is not a continuation of letter (Halper 389; see M. Gil: Italia judaica : atti del I Convegno internazionale : Bari 18-22 maggio 1981. Rome : Ministero per i beni culturali e ambiental, 1981).
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Cited in:
- Halper, no. 414
- IMHMn, no. F38400.
- Publications about:
- Published by M. Ben-Sasson, ibid. (Italia judaica, 1981) no. 13; Gil ibid. no. 752, among eight other letters sent by Solomon and his father Moses ben Isaac to the same Judah, or to Nahrai ben Nissim (nos. 745-753).
- OCLC:
- 249394724
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.