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• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420623503681

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Orient

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 Sa'id ibn Thabith.
   
• Condition: losses at top; folded in mail format; marginalia.
   

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Black ink

Script

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Commercial correspondence, Judeo-Arabic

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