[Business letter to (Yaḥiye) Nahray ben Nissim] : manuscript

Name:

Mardukh ben Musi

Timespan:

To 1500

Date:

1048

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Correspondence; Personal correspondence

Physical Description:

1 folio : damaged, losses in lower left corner; folded in mail format

Geographic Subject:

Egypt

Rights:

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

Notes:

Signature and address are at bottom of verso.; The writer, a native of Tripoli, Libya, was a merchant in Alexandria. Here he writes that he has returned from Alexandria in the month of Tevet, but has yet to receive replies to his two letters. He requests merchandise for trade, currency, jewels, cloves and chemicals.; Another letter from Marduk to Nahray is found above no. 385, written in a more cursive hand.; The addressee is the recipient of hundreds of Genizah letters, analyzed in the doctoral dissertation of Murad A. Michael: Arkiyono shel Nehoray ben Nissim, baʹal ʹasaḳim be-Mitsrayim be-meʹah ha-aḥat ʹeśreh [The archives of Ben Nissim, a businessman in 11th century Egypt], Jerusalem, 1963.; 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

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 390

Collection:

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