University of Pennsylvania, Halper 472

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DS ID:

DS25861

Shelfmark:

Halper 472

Title:

Account note page of an India trader

Accounts

Author:

Ben Yijû, Abraham, active 12th century

Abraham Ben Yijû WIKIDATA

Place:

Fustat

Old Cairo TGN

Date:

1152?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic and Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

torn, losses along upper edge and lower right quarter, faded

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : torn, losses along upper edge and lower right quarter, faded

Note:

The central, primary inscription is in Arabic characters. The secondary inscription is in Hebrew characters, utilizing all the remaining space, including the blank verso, where it is has been folded lengthwise and divided into columns of writing in the opposite direction. The right half of the verso has two columns, the left half has one. Paragraphs on the lower left column and upper right...
Notes of Abraham ben Peraḥyā ben Yijū, an India trader, upon his return to Fustat from India and Yemen, with his Indian slave Bama; partially described in A Mediterranean Society, vol. IV p. 400 n. 100; p. 439 n. 131.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Biographies

Egypt

Account books

Ben Yijû, Abraham, active 12th century

Jewish merchants

India

History

To 1500

Bomma, active 12th century

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9934790533503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3zc7sc8f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania