T-S Misc.28.72
Recto/verso: recto
Letter from Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Dhahabī to ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written in two different hands. The writer asks the addressee to let the ṭabaqa and send him the rent. 4 waybas of wheat cost 1 dinar; he wants to have one irdabb per month. "In a letter to ʿArūs b. Joseph (dated documents 1088–1116), a traveling merchant with his seat in Alexandria orders one irdabb of sieved wheat every month; he clearly did not wish to receive the entire quantity of the yearly provision at once, because, as he mentions, the price was high (only four waybas for 1 dinar)." (Information from Goitein's note card and Med Soc IV, p. 236, n. 74.)