Letter: ENA NS 48.2

Letter ENA NS 48.2

Shelfmark: ENA NS 48.2
Editors: S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India traders of the middle ages : documents from the Cairo Geniza : India book (2008), vol. 3.

Primary Language: Judaeo-Arabic

In PGP since 2017

Description

Note from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, written by one of his clerks, to Avraham Ibn Yiju during the first half of the twelfth century. The letter describes the highhanded tactics of Bilāl b. Jarīr, the governor of Aden and Maḍmūn's occasional business partner. Madmun complains about Bilal’s habit of demanding the first pick of the goods in the port, specifically of ‘drky,’ a commodity exported to Aden from India that was not always available. (S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India Book, 357) EMS

Edition: Goitein, S. D.; Friedman, Mordechai Akiva

Edition: Goitein, S. D.; Friedman, Mordechai Akiva

Translation:

ENA NS 48.2 2

Transcription

S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India traders of the middle ages : documents from the Cairo Geniza : India book (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008), vol. 3.