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NLI 4°9463.8

Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Alexandria, to Yosef b. Avraham. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentions items such as flax and a receipt/release (barāʾa). Mentions people such as Mūsā al-Isfāqusī (of Sfax), Abū Isḥāq Barhūn b. Maṣliaḥ (probably al-Tāhirtī), and Abū Saʿīd. Contains numerous instructions about business transactions. Instructs the addressee to leave 4 loads of something in Sūsa (recto, 3 lines from the bottom), asks addressee to write to Sicily (=Palermo?), and mentions Barqa.(Information in part from NLI catalogue: https://www.nli.org.il/he/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH997007966690205171/NLI#$FL128464586.) OZ. ASE

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