Geniza Lab

Business letter dealing with shipments of textiles within Egypt. The name Abu al-Ḥasan is mentioned. addresed to Barakāt b. Khulayf.

Two letters. (a) Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yosef [..]ān al-Barqī to Shemarya b. Shemuel. He decribes the difficult winter they have had, not to mention the illness and inkisār (debts to the diwan? see T-S 13J3.6v) of Nissim; the illness of Ezra; the "arrival of that [woman]" and their expenses on her behalf. He mentions the arrival of Barakāt b. Khulayf (mentioned in several other letters) and having purchased two robes (shuqqatayn) for the addressee. ʿAwāḍ is also seriously ill, as well as his elder daughter. He has likely become dependent on public charity (inkashafa), and he even put up his ghulām for sale, but there are no buyers. Faḍl bought a donkey and has gone wandering about. "As for ʿAwāḍ [finding relief?], here no [travelers?] enter or leave." Mūsā b. ʿAllūsh has run away from his family. ASE.

Letter sent from Alexandria by Yiṣḥaq Simha to Abu al-'Ala al-Dimashqi of Cairo, instructing him how to provide for the family of Abu al-Faraj during the latter's journey to the Maghreb. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

Letter by Hibat Allah b. Khalaf al-Hamawi to Barakāt b. Khulayf, complaining that he couldn't sell the resin and mentioning a transport by the ship of al-Harbi, apparently a Christian from a Christian land. Dated May 1037. (Information from M. Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, p. 118)