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[Business letter] : manuscript.
Library at the Katz Center - Genizah Fragments Halper 384
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Commercial correspondence, Judeo-Arabic.
- Jewish merchants--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Jewish merchants.
- Clove trade.
- History.
- Pearl industry and trade.
- Egypt.
- Jewish merchants--India--History--To 1500.
- India.
- Pearl industry and trade--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Clove trade--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
- Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
- Amram.
- Physical Description:
- 1 folio : losses at top; folded in mail format; marginalia
- Paper 17.7 X 8.8 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: in mail format columns: 1 lines: 11 (recto), 10 (verso).
- Contained In:
- Cairo Genizah Collection
- Place of Publication:
- [Orient], [publisher not identified], [11th century-13th century?]
- Language Note:
- Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew
- Notes:
- Recto has marginal additions; verso has marginal postscript. The names and address were probably on now missing end of verso.
- The letter deals with the trade of pearls, two of which are worth 10 dinar, and cloves. A trader named Abu Ephraim is mentioned (ll. 7-8). In the postscript on the verso, the writer sends regards to Abu Saʻid ibn Thabith.
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Cited in:
- Halper, no. 384
- IMHM, no. F38400
- Publications about:
- Unpublished, complete description to appear in: Goitein, India Book (chapter , document no. ; ed. Mordechai A. Friedman).
- OCLC:
- 249591110
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