[Business letter] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masina, Meir, 17th century.

Contributor:

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

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Commercial correspondence, Hebrew.

Textile industry--Egypt--History--17th century.

Textile industry.

Pepper (Spice) industry--Egypt--History--17th century.

Pepper (Spice) industry.

Hebrew letters.

History.

Egypt.

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

Paper 31.8 X 18.3 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: lines: (recto), (verso).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [late 17th century]

Language Note:

Hebrew. Hebrew

Notes:

Recto: text starts after a blank upper quarter, 37 lines, leaving the right quarter of the page for postscript, which he fills (35 lines), written in the opposite direction.

Verso: continues on upper half, 24 lines, ending with the author's signature. The second stage of the letter starts a marginal postscript of 27 lines, and continues in an additional postscript of 16 lines in the lower half.

The author reports at great length to his partner, possibly in ʻAzza (verso ll. 14, 35). He deals primarily in textiles, but also mentions the trade of pepper (verso l. 9). He reports on difficulties in business, largely due to high interest rates, and a plague (recto ll. 5-15).

The marginal postscript on the verso starts a new session of writing, dated "Monday the 25th", upon receiving a letter from his addressee.

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 420

IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

249591724