University of Pennsylvania, Halper 385

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS26021

Shelfmark:

Halper 385

Title:

Business letter to Nahrai ben Nissim

Letter

Author:

Mardukh ben Musi

Mardukh ben Musi WIKIDATA

Place:

Orient

Date:

21 July, 1046

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

complete; folded in mail format; marginalia on recto

Physical Description:

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

Note:

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

Keyword:

Personal correspondence

Correspondence

Egypt

Nahray ben Nissim, 1025-1097

History

Cotton trade

To 1500

Commercial correspondence, Judeo-Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420633503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3959cs4q/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania