Details

Subjects:

Textile industry.
Merchants.
Morocco.
Merchants -- Morocco.
Textile industry -- Morocco.

Form/Genre:

Correspondence.
Accounts.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Arabic.

Summary:

Copies of business correspondence and accounts of a Moroccan company, mostly concerning commerce in textiles. All letters signed by Muḥammad al-Mahdī al-Fāsī. Letters dated 1919-1920 written from one end of the volume, letters dated 1921 written from the other end of the volume, turned upside down.

Notes:

Written in Morocco, in naskh script. Stamped foliation.
Paper over cardboard binding (Type 3), cover and spine label with title Copie-lettres.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund.

Penn Provenance:

Sold as part of the Fez Lithographs Collection by Fawzi Abdulrazak (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 2013.

Cited in:

Listed in the Fez Lithographs Collection Handlist, H. 113.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 960, Item 4.

Contributor:

Abdulrazak, Fawzi, former owner.
Fez Lithographs Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund.

OCLC:

870870930

Web link:

The Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund Home Page