منحة في رسالة: AIU XII.87

Recto

1. A good supplement.

2. The peace of God the exalted and his mercy and blessings, and his most abundant greetings—with these we greet

3. his noble excellency Sayyidi Muḥammad Ḥasan, may God strengthen him. Amen.

4. After offering copious greetings to him—It is not hidden from you that before this date

5. we sent to inform you that you should take from Muʿallim

   Shimʿūn Fransīs

6. 12,000 fiḍḍa and 5,800 fiḍḍa

7. in large silver qurūsh, but this was an error. What is correct

   is that you should take

8. from the aforementioned [i.e., Shimʿūn Fransīs] the 12,000

   fiḍḍa and give him the deposit belonging to him

9. and that the 5,800 large silver qurūsh

10. is in the deposit belonging to us, in which there are 100 bunduqīs and 100

11. farānsa. May you be informed of this [lit., ‘may that be in your honourable knowledge’]. And peace.

Signature

1. The poor one, al-Ḥājj

2. Muḥammad ʿAshrī

3. al-ʿAṭṭār

Date

1. 19 Ṣafar in the year 1223 [16 April 1808]

Verso: Address

1. May it arrive in Cairo and be delivered soundly to the hand of Sayyidi

2. Muḥammad Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭār in the Bunduqāniyya.

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