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Title

Authors

• Ben Yijû, Abraham, active 12th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9934790533503681

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Fustat

Notes

• The central, primary inscription is in Arabic characters. The secondary inscription is in Hebrew characters, utilizing all the remaining space, including the blank verso, where it is has been folded lengthwise and divided into columns of writing in the opposite direction. The right half of the verso has two columns, the left half has one. Paragraphs on the lower left column and upper right column are crossed twice, indicating erasure; Notes of Abraham ben Peraḥyā ben Yijū, an India trader, upon his return to Fustat from India and Yemen, with his Indian slave Bama; partially described in A Mediterranean Society, vol. IV p. 400 n. 100; p. 439 n. 131.
   
• Condition: torn, losses along upper edge and lower right quarter, faded.
   

Extent

Support

Layout

Decoration

Material applied: 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

• Account books

Licenses

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