[Business Letter to ʻArus ben Yosef, Fustat] : manuscript

Name:

Nisim ben Benaya, 11th/12th century

Date:

1100

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Amram.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Nisim ben Benaya, 11th/12th century Correspondence; ʻArus ben Yosef, 11th/12th century Correspondence; Commercial correspondence, Judeo-Arabic

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

personal correspondence; books

Physical Description:

1 folio : torn, faded

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

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.; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 399

Collection:

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