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Primary language
- Judaeo-Arabic
Sent together with IV,21 (now a new join by Amir Ashur: T-S AS 148.9 + T-S AS 148.197, PGPID 5466), which is a letter from Khalaf b. […]
Almost all the proceeds were invested immediately in new transactions that had to be done in India. In addition to coral, whose value reached nearly one third of the shipment's value, precious metals were used for this purpose: gold coins and silver (ingots or tools). He gives prices in the coin of Aden, the Malikī dinar, corresponding to 24 qīrāṭs, while textiles are traded in units of kawragha (pl. kawārigh), which is a bundle of twenty thawb (pl. athwāb; the word means not only cloak, but the unit of fabric of the size needed to make one).
Recto
- חסאב מולאי אלשיך אבו סעיד חלפון בר נתנאל נ''ע
- לה קימה ח' כוארג וח' אתואב מקצור קצ''ח דינאר וי''ד קיראט
Expenses: 96 dinars for the "tithe" (customs duty) for the pepper from Abū Saʿīd.Customsfor the laundered fabric, the cloaks and the unlaundered fabric — 46½ + ¼ dinars.- Related People
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