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Recto/verso: recto

Letter from Yeshu‘a b. Ismāʿīl, in Malīj, to Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. ʿAlī ha-Kohen. Dating: 11th century. Concerning business matters. The sender delivered something on behalf of the addressee to Abū l-Manṣūr b. Shuʿayb, who showed it to Ibn al-Aʿraj, who refused to buy it. Abū l-Manṣūr now awaits instructions. The sender conveys regards to and from various people. Mentions Isḥāq, who had just arrived and settled the addressee’s debt. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index cards.) EMS Written on the back of a document in Arabic script.