JRL Series A 685
Recto/verso: recto
This is the beginning of a very fragmentary letter which mentions a certain al-Dar'i (Dar'a is a town in Morocco). It is possible that the author is referring to the judge Avraham b. Yaʿaqov al-Dar'i, who was active in Alexandria around 1100 (see Goitein, Med Soc, v. 1, pp. 53, 407 fn 45: v. 3, p. 481 fn 171: v. 4, p. 399 fn 84: v. 5, p. 591 fn 173. See also Cohen, Jewish Self Government, pp 215 and 241-2, for a discussion of a letter in which Natan b. Yehuda accuses al-Dar'i of causing his death). The verso is also a letter, though it is unclear whether the two are related.
1 תדכרה מוגהה לסיידי
2 פבאע אעלמך אן כאן בקי[
3 ל]נא ענד בן מכאן [ל] גיר יט ב..[
4 שח. אלי אן כתב לי כתאב אלי..[
5 אלדרע[י] ביד[ה] אלדי בקבאל..[
6 אלדי ענדה פקאל ד[
7 באימך וא[
8 ל..[.]ל[