T-S 16.279
Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Bahlūl, apparently in al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, August 1062. Includes the news of the death of Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhirtī, and of the destruction of the Maghrib, presumably by the Banī Hilāl (who had sacked Qayrawān three years earlier). Mistakenly cited in Goitein, Med. Soc. 1:410 n. 2 as T-S 16.276. (Gil) Also contains mention of Ṭalḥī paper, named after Talḥa b. Ṭāhir (d. 213/828), an Abbasid amīr of Khūrasān of the Ṭāhirid dynasty (see EI2 s.v. Kāghad). It is remarkable (as Goitein notes) that the paper still retained this designation three centuries later. Ṣāliḥ asks for some of this paper in order to use it to write "to Baghdad and Ereṣ Yisraʾel," by which presumably he means the yeshivot or the communal leaders. This letter is, however, written on parchment. Bottom recto contains the ends of the lines of another document in the same hand, suggesting that Ṣāliḥ may have written more than one letter on the sheet before cutting it (?). (MR)
Editor: Ed. Moshe Gil, In the Kingdom of Ishmael (in Hebrew) (1997), vol. 4; also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/5C.1.1%20NN_%20Michael_%20pt.%202/T-S%2016.279_1%20%28PGPID%205917%29.pdf; also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/5C.1.2%20Nahray%20101_%20pt.2/T-S%2016.279_2%20%28PGPID%205917%29.pdf.
