COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 4037 - 1
Obverse:
B 4037 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0704251dc
Image Title:
Judeo-Arabic letter
Subject:
Letters
Description:
Business letter from Allush ("Lamb") ben Makhluf al-Nafusi to M[ahr]uz ben Jacob concerning payments involving and owed to various merchants
Date created:
12th century
Place covered:
Yemen: Aden
Place covered:
Egypt: Fustat
People covered:
Abu Sa`id ibn al-Damiyati (12th cent.)
People covered:
Abu Zikri (12th cent.)
People covered:
Isaac (ben Makhluf (12th cent.))
People covered:
Madmun (ibn Hasan (d. 1151)?)
People covered:
Abu Sa`id (12th cent.)
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Numerals: alphanumerical
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
149 mm
Item width:
84 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Notes:
23 lines. Among the merchants mentioned are someone named Madmun, perhaps to be identified with the representative of merchants and Nagid of Yemen, Madmun ibn Hasan (d. 1151); Abu Said ibn al-Damiyati; Abu Zikri, perhaps the representative of the merchants in Fustat during the first half of the twelfth century with the same name; and the writer's brother, Isaac (= the well-attested India trader Isaac ben Makhluf). Allush appears again in a court record dated 1132 as having bought a house in his brother\'s name [Bodl. MS Heb b.11 (Cat 2874, no. 20) fol. 21)]. The letter also mentions travel to the Maghrib and Aden, and shipments of pepper. Page meant to be turned vertically.
Discovery site:
Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
Current repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository:
Moses Gaster
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Fragments
Image rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Access rights:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number:
B04037-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-03-06
Date: added:
2007-07
Metadata language:
eng-GB
