منحة في رسالة: Unknown (excavation images 1974_V09_36–36A and 1974_V09_37–37A)

رسالة Unknown (excavation images 1974_V09_36–36A and 1974_V09_37–37A)
  1. الاقتباس المرجعي
    Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia (University of Cambridge and Open Book Publishers, 2024).
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    • Digital Edition
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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia (University of Cambridge and Open Book Publishers, 2024).

Recto

  1. بسم الل ه الرحمن الرحيم 
  2. وصل كتاب صاحب الخيل ووزير الملك اطال الل ه بقاه وادام 
  3. عزه وسلامته وحراسته ووقفت عليه وسررت بوصوله 
  4. ووصل غلامه بشر يوم الثلثة خروجي الى بلد النوبة ووجدت في ذلك 
  5. ان صاحب الخيل انفذ ثلثة دنانير فطلبتهم منه ليشتري له الزفت قبل
  6. خروجي من البلد فجمعت ثلثة درهم حقا حتى يشتري له الزفت 
  7. وبعد ان خرجت الى بلد النوبة [يوم [الـ]ـثلثة  [بـ]ـعث صاحــ[ـبى ......] 
  8. اليه عشرين قيراط يشتري له عشرو[ن ....] 
  9. اليه قربتين من عندي يجعل فيها الزفت وقد جعـ[ـلت الزفت فيها] 
  10. وحملتها واركبت مركب للمعدى بالتجارة وبالله لقد سررت
  11. بكتابه فايشما كان لك من حاجة فاكتب الي فاني اقضىيها 
  12. له وافعل له ما يلزمني صغيرة كانت او كبيرة فلا يقطع

Recto, right margin

  1. لانابة عني بالتجارة وحاجاته وللخير 
  2. الحمد لله وحده وصلواته 
  3. تكون ان شا الله عز وجل 
  4. على وسلامه محـ[ـمد ومن] خلفه وصحبه وسلم تسليما 
  5. حسبنا الله ونعم [الوكيل]
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia (University of Cambridge and Open Book Publishers, 2024).

Recto

  1. In the name of God the Merciful and Compassionate.
  2. The letter of the Master of the Horses and vizier of theking—may God prolong his life and cause
  3. his strength, safety and guardianship to endure—has arrived, and I have taken note of it and am pleased with its arrival.
  4. His slave boy, Bishr, arrived on Wednesday as I was leaving for the land of Nubia. I found in it (the letter)
  5. that the Master of the Horses sent three dīnārs and I asked on your behalf for bitumen to be bought for you before
  6. I left the land. I collected three dirhams commission in order for him to buy for him (i.e., the Master of the Horses) the bitumen.
  7. When I left for the land of the Nubians on Wednesday, my colleague sent [       ]
  8. to him twenty qīrāṭs in order to buy for him twenty [      ]
  9. to him two water skins from me, in which the bitumen could be put, and I put [the bitumen in them]
  10. and I loaded them on a ship of the purveyor of merchandise. By God, I was delighted
  11. with his letter. Whatever request you have, write to me, and I shall carry it out
  12. and perform my duty, whether it be small or large. May he (the Master of the Horses) not cease

Recto, right margin

  1. to allow me to act as his agent in trade, to carry out hisneeds and for any service.
  2. Praise be to him alone. May His blessings
  3. be—if God, the Almighty and Exalted, wishes—
  4. upon Muḥammad [and those who] succeeded him, andhis companions, and may He save (them), and His peace.
  5. Our sufficiency is God. What a fine keeper is He!

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Verso

  1. اعذرني فاني كتبت هذا الكتاب من دندور فلو كنت باسوان لكنت 
  2. انفذ اليه حق عين حتى تدارك الصداقة بما يقول هذا ان شا الله

Verso, address, right column

  1. [لصاحب الخيل وو]زير الملك
  2. [ابـ]ـي الخير ايسوا
  3. اطال الله بقاه وادام سعادته

Verso, address, left column

الحسين بن محمد [    ] بن نصر [      ]

Verso

  1. I ask forgiveness, since I have written this letter from Dendur. If I were in Aswan, I would have
  2. sent him cash, so that trusting friendship may accompany what this (letter) says, if God wills.

Verso, address, right column

  1. To the Master of the Horses and vizier of the king
  2. Abū al-Khayr Īsū,
  3. may God prolong his life and cause his happiness to endure.

Verso, address, left column

Al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad [     ] ibn Naṣr [     ]