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מכתב מיצחק בן עזרא אל חלפון בן נתנאל, כ-1128 לספירה, בכתב יד בעל השפעה ספרדית
Princeton Geniza Project description: IB IV, 53c (*ח53). Letter from an unknown correspondent to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: ca. 1128 CE. In which Yiṣḥaq b. ʿEzra asks to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. "Everyone who has arrived from your area confirms in your name that you, may God grant you honor, are remaining this year in al-Andalus." The writer is distressed to have learned that the addressee is in Granada, for had the bearer of the letter been able to tarry one more day, he would have sent the money received from the sale of Ḥalfon's merchandise (it was subsequently sent to Almería). The writer apologizes for his difficulties in managing the addressee's business affairs, "only on account of my bad luck, for never has a transaction been completed on your behalf by me, and I hope that perhaps I will succeed in this [...]" (in the near future). Gil and Fleischer identified the writer as the famous biblical commentator Yiṣḥaq ibn ʿEzrā, but Friedman disagrees based on the layout in Ibn ʿEzrā's letters and the spelling of the word allāh with a single lām as a fence against writing out the divine name, whereas Ibn ʿEzrā wrote the word Allāh in full. He adds that the handwriting here is denser and written with a thicker pen than in Ibn ʿEzrā's letters. Another letter in possibly the same hand at PGPID 1931.