AIU XII.80

Mercantile letter, complete, in Arabic script from Bundar b. Eliya al-ʿAṭṭār to Abū ʿAlī Ismaʿīl b Ḥananya al-Baṣrī (in Fusṭāṭ). Sent with ʿAlī b. Ṭalḥa b. al-Ḥusayn. This is a usual business letter mentioning commodities and their purchase and selling. Bundar urges Ismaʿīl to not delay in sending him cash after the goods have been sold off as he is in urgent need of cash: "fa-ḥājatī ilaihima māssa māssa". Among the commodities mentioned are sugar, musk, and honey. Names of several trade vessels and the province of Damietta are also mentioned. Placing the names of the ships in chronology could help in dating the document.
Editor: Ed. Ṣabīḥ ʿAodeh, Eleventh Century Arabic Letters of Jewish Merchants from the Cairo Geniza‎ (in Hebrew) (1992); also ed. Sabih Aodeh (1992), with minor emendations from Yusuf Umrethwala (2022).‎ (in Arabic) (2022) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EU0c0RRAPDrr3ZPc_E0_OFIQkOV3DC1Ra83E9eFtsSo/edit.
Library: AIU
Type: Letter
Tags: dimme