University of Pennsylvania, Halper 420

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25906

Shelfmark:

Halper 420

Title:

Business letter

Letter

Author:

Masina, Meir, 17th century

Place:

Orient

Date:

late 17th century

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

complete

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : complete

Note:

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

Keyword:

Egypt

Textile industry

History

Seventeenth century

Pepper (Spice) industry

Commercial correspondence, Hebrew

Hebrew letters

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420993503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3ws8j49s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania