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• Ben ʹAmram,9th/10th cent.

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• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420723503681

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Orient

Notes

• In the address, the family name of the addressee is ben al-Matsmudi, Tayib Almarb'aah (Doctor of the Square); The name of the writer is faded. He is in the service of the diggers of a canal for Abu'l-Munajjā. He asks Abu'l-Hassan to approach the Nagid, asking him to induce Abu'l-Munajjā to pay his accumulated salary, and requests to be relieved of his post; He mentions (l. 5)Bakhur ben Naṣr, a notable in Sahur (near Alexandria), and the refinement of sugar in Minya[t Ziftā] (l. 10); In the postscript in the margin he sends regards to acquaintances. On the verso, in the marginal postscript he asks that his family buy wheat and grapes and have them processed; About the neighborhood mentioned in the address, see Goitein, Mediterranean Society, vol. II, p. 264.
   
• Condition: torn, loss along left edge; folded mail format; marginal postscripts.
   

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Black ink

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Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Sugar trade , History , To 1500 , Egypt

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