[Business letter] : manuscript

Timespan:

To 1500

Date:

1000s

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:

Commercial correspondence, Judeo-Arabic; Jewish merchants -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Jewish merchants; Clove trade; History; Pearl industry and trade; Jewish merchants -- India -- History -- To 1500; Pearl industry and trade -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Clove trade -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500

Resource Type:

Text

Physical Description:

1 folio : losses at top; folded in mail format; marginalia

Geographic Subject:

Egypt; India

Rights:

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

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.; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 384

Collection:

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