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Title

Authors

• Nisim ben Benaya, 11th/12th cent.

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420783503681

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Alexandria

Notes

• Exceeding words cramped between lines; verso contains only the signature and address, but has a secondary inscription of a few notes; The addressee is known from other Genizah documents as a dealer in purple cloth. His Hebrew name is Abraham. See Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. I p. 207, index. Eight other articles of his mail have been published by Gil, ibid. nos. 467, 468, 697, 714, 735, 767, 785 and 786; The writer is making sure that the addressee received a sum of money that he brought from Maghreb, although he would have preferred to take out a suftaja in Fustat and receive its equivalent in Alexandria. He was unable to read the previous letter from 'Arus. He sends regards to Abul'Hussein, and his mentor Abu'l-Ifraḥ 'Arus ben Joseph.
   
• Condition: torn, faded.
   

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).
   
• Amram.
   

Subjects topical

• Commercial correspondence, Judeo-Arabic

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