[Letter to Judah ben Moses ben Sujmar of Fustat] : manuscript

Name:

Salamah ben Musa ben Yitsḥaḳ; Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 414

Timespan:

To 1500

Date:

1064

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Salamah ben Musa ben Yitsḥaḳ Correspondence; Abu Zekharyah Yehudah ben Mosheh Correspondence; Taxes, Farming of; Jews -- Italy -- Sicily -- History -- To 1500; Jews -- Italy -- Mazara del Vallo -- History -- To 1500; Normans -- Mediterranean Region -- Influence; Indigo industry -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Flax industry -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Commercial correspondence, Judeo-Arabic; Flax industry; History; Indigo industry; Normans; Jews

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books; personal correspondence

Physical Description:

1 folio : damaged; verso is blank

Geographic Subject:

Sfax (Tunisia) -- Commerce -- History -- To 1500; Egypt; Mediterranean Region; Italy -- Mazara del Vallo; Italy -- Sicily

Rights:

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

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).; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 414