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

Name:

Yitsḥaḳ ben Aharon Sigilmasi

Timespan:

To 1500

Date:

1100s

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:

Yitsḥaḳ ben Aharon Sigilmasi Correspondence; Abu Alifraḥ ʻArus ben Yosef Correspondence; Silk industry -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Judeo-Arabic letters; Silk industry; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Personal correspondence; books

Physical Description:

1 folio : torn along bottom; marginal postscript on recto

Geographic Subject:

Egypt

Rights:

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

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).; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 405

Collection:

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