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Title

Authors

• Mardukh ben Musi.1025-1097

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420673503681

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Alexandria

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.
   
• Condition: damaged, losses in lower left corner; folded in mail format.
   

Extent

Support

Layout

Decoration

Black ink

Script

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Commercial correspondence, Judeo-Arabic

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