[Business letter to Nahrai ben Nissim] : manuscript

Name:

Mardukh ben Musi; Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 385

Timespan:

To 1500

Date:

1046

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Amram.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Nahray ben Nissim, 1025-1097 Correspondence; Mardukh ben Musi Correspondence; Nahray ben Nissim, 1025-1097; Commercial correspondence, Judeo-Arabic; Cotton trade -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Cotton trade; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books; personal correspondence

Physical Description:

1 folio : complete; folded in mail format; marginalia on recto

Geographic Subject:

Egypt

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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.; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 385