[Business letter to Nahrai ben Nissim] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mardukh ben Musi.

Contributor:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Nahray ben Nissim, 1025-1097--Correspondence.

Nahray ben Nissim.

Mardukh ben Musi--Correspondence.

Mardukh ben Musi.

Nahray ben Nissim, 1025-1097.

Commercial correspondence, Judeo-Arabic.

Cotton trade--Egypt--History--To 1500.

Cotton trade.

History.

Egypt.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

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 : complete; folded in mail format; marginalia on recto

Paper 13.5 X 17 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: in mail format columns: 1 lines: 15 (recto), 7 (verso).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [21 July, 1046]

Language Note:

Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

Signature and address appear in 3 lines at bottom of verso.

A hastily written letter, about a shipment of sacks, and difficulty in selling cotton.

The addressee is the recipient of hundreds of Genizah letters, analyzed in the doctoral dissertation of Murad A. Michael: Arkiyono shel Nehorai ben Nissim, baʹal ʹasaḳim be-Mitsrayim be-meʹah ha-aḥat ʹeśreh [The archives of Ben Nissim, a businessman in 11th century Egypt], Jerusalem 1963. Another letter from the same Marduk to Nissim is found below no. 390.

The writing here is more cursive. Letters from Marduk ben Moses were collected by Gil, ibid. nos. 526-541, pp. 757-805, all but two of these are addressed to Nahray.

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 385

IMHM, no. F38400

Publications about:

Published, with translation and notes, by M. Gil, Be-Malkhut Yishmaʹel bi-teḳufat ha-geʾonin / Moshe Gil. Tel Aviv : University of Tel Aviv, 1997 vol. III pp. 769-771, no. 531. See also the description in Goitein, A Mediterranean Society vol. IV p. 404.

OCLC:

249591118