T-S NS 338.95

Business letter in Arabic script from Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl in Alexandria to Menashshe b. David, Fustat, October 22, 1050. Farah is worried because of the absence in letters from his father. He writes to his father’s neighbor and business partner - Menashshe. Farah mentions details about sending dinars to Fustat for exchange, as well as information about the ships movement and shipments of goods. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #500) VMR
Editor: Ed. Ṣabīḥ ʿAodeh, "Eleventh Century Arabic Letters from the Cairo Geniza‎" (in Hebrew), Te'udah‎ 14 (1998). Shelfmark incorrectly noted in article as T-S NS 388.95 https://humanities.tau.ac.il/sites/humanities.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/Jewish%20History/Teuda/Teuda-%20vol%2014-%20English/Teuda-%20Vol%2014-%2010-%20Aodeh.pdf; also ed. Ṣabīḥ ʿAodeh, "Eleventh Century Arabic Letters of Jewish Merchants from the Cairo Geniza‎" (in Hebrew) (1992); also ed. Moshe Gil, In the Kingdom of Ishmael‎ (in Hebrew) (1997), vol. 3.
Library: CUL
Type: Letter
Tags: aodeh