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Cairo Genizah : Letter

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Business letter from Aden to ʿAyḏāb, in the handwriting of Joseph b. Abraham b. Bundār. Among other commodities, it refers to receipt of a silk fūṭa (פוטה חריר). Joseph talks about the losses that Isaac al-Nafūsī sustained, including the wreck of a ship at sea (ותלף אלמרכב פי אלבחר) with a cargo worth 1700 'royal dinars' (דינר מלכיה). He refers too to the arrival in Aden of Hiba b. al-Dabbāḡ (‘the tanner’). </p>

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