Letter: CUL Or.1080 J129

Recto

1. At the service of the dignity of my lord and master the gracious and august elder

2. Abu'l-Faraj the Judge, may God lengthen your life and perpetuate your honored position

3. and preserve you; may He bring us together in sound condition and well-being.

4. My service] to my master, what happened to you .....

5. a little in all my affairs. By God, I have not been able (to sell)

6. even for a dirhem. Candy is worth nothing. By God, I have in my possession some (candy)

7. (which I bought) for about ninety di’na’rs; it's hardly worth ten matha’-

8. qi’l (today). Also, by God, we have suffered a loss of

9. six Egyptian di’na’rs on the sugar, after I gave

10. five months credit on it. My lord and father knows about the matter.

11. Ibra’hi’m b. Ha’ru’n knows the matter too; also b. Ha’mu’n IbrahIm left me with only five matha’qI’l, and the five which he has (invested) in the candy

Margin

1. is not worth a quarter.

2. And now, by God,

3. if I had in the house

4. one dirhem I would grant you a loan,

5. my master. However,

6. I have sold

7. the sugar alone

8. and lost half a dinar

9. ..... [ ....

Verso

1. time of the sugar........... This (is all) I (have to) tell you (about this matter). I

2. intend to send my candy and exhibit it in Cairo. As to what you told me, to send

3. what belongs to you, the one who will collect from me the price of the sugar will collect for the candy which

4. is yours - after I will divide it. This (is all) I (have to) tell you (about this matter). I expect a letter from you

5. soon about what to buy for the income from the sugar so that you will be satisfied, -

6. <although> I have sworn not to sell to anyone anything nor to buy or sell for anyone. This (is all) I (have to) tell you (about this matter).

7. The pearl-perforator has .....' s pearl. They will, God willing, arrive

8. for the holiday. May your peace increase forever.