State document: T-S Ar.38.138

State document T-S Ar.38.138

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Report to the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh regarding the arrival of five Christian (Rūm) merchants carrying timber: Sergius son of Constantine, [name partly illegible], Grasso son of Leo the Amalfitan, [name partly illegible] and Bon Senyon the Genovese,. Dating: ca. 495–524/1101–30 CE.

T-S Ar.38.138 1r

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Transcription

Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Recto

  1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
  2. صلوات الله وبركانه ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته
  3. مولانا وسيدنا الامام الامر باحكام الله امير المومنين
  4. وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الاكرمين صلاة دائمة باقية
  5. الى يوم الدين    المملوك يقبل الارض امام المواقف
  6. الشريفة المعظمة النبوية ضاعف الله انوارها واعلى
  7. ابدا منارها وينهى تواصل حضور تجار الروم الواصلين
  8. بالاخشاب الذين كان المملوك انهى وصولهم وهم سرجة
  9. بن قسطنطين وسر [    ] عولا بن هحلم وغرس بن لبن الملفطانى
  10. وبدر راح وبون سنيون الجنوى ومن معهم من
  11. اصحابهم ذاكرين انهم الى حين تسطير المملوك 'خدمته هذه' لم يتقرر
  12. ا[         ] الاخشاب التى وصلوا بها ولا وصل اليهم من

Translation

Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Recto

  1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
  2. The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and most excellent peace and greetings be upon
  3. our master and lord, the imām al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh, commander of the faithful,
  4. and upon his pure ancestors and most noble sons — enduring benedictions that last
  5. until the day of judgment. The slave kisses the ground before
  6. the noble and exalted prophetic presence, may God double its light and raise aloft
  7. forever its beacon, and reports the continued arrival of the Rūm merchants, who have arrived
  8. with timber, and whose coming the slave had reported. They are Sergius
  9. the son of Constantine, .... the son of ... , Grasso the son of Leo the Amalfitan,
  10. ... and Bon Senyon the Genoese, and their companions who are with them.
  11. They say that up to the time of the slave's writing this report, the
  12. [ ] of the timber that they brought has not been established and no .... has reached them.

T-S Ar.38.138 1v

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