Scholarship on Letter: ENA NS 48.2
Letter ENA NS 48.2- Bibliographic citation
- S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India Book 2: Madmun, nagid of Yemen, and the India trade: Cairo Geniza documents (in Hebrew) (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2010).
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- II-27
- II-27
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- Bibliographic citation
- 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. 1.
- Location in source
- II-27
- II-27
- Relation to document
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Editors: Goitein, S. D.; Friedman, Mordechai Akiva
Translators: Goitein, S. D.; Friedman, Mordechai Akiva (in English)
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S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India Book 2: Madmun, nagid of Yemen, and the India trade: Cairo Geniza documents (in Hebrew) (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2010).
Recto
- אלספר ביומין [...]
- גריב עלי ידה וע[לי...]
- לצחאב דהלך פיה לשיך [...]
- בלאל בו גריר עלי אלרגל אל[די באע]
- אלדרכי אשתראה מנה לנפס[ה]
- וליס יקדר אחד יטלב שי יטל[ב]ה
- אלמאלך בלאל פלו וצלת מטאיא א[בן]
- אלסדא[נ]י בשי מנה לאנפדת לה דלך
- פלא יעתקד אני גׄפלת ען חאגתה
- ומא יעוד במצלחתה ובללה לקד
- כאן האדה אלסנה פי אלבלד לבטה
- עצׄימה בלגת אלמתׄאקיל אלמצרייה
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. 1.
- two days [before] the ships sailed [...]
- foreigner by him and b[y…, some of it]
- for (or belonging to) the ruler of Dahlak and some of it for Sheikh [...]
- Bilāl Ibn Jarīr against the man w[ho sold (?)]
- the drky. He bought it from him for [him]self.
- And no one can ask for anything claimed by
- the lord Bilāl. Were the maṭiyya boats of I[bn]
- al-Sudā[n]ī to bring some of it, I would send it to him (i.e., to you).
- You should not believe that I have neglected your need
- and that which would produce something beneficial to you. By God,
- this year there was in the city a great fall (in the market).
- The Egyptian mithqāls reached [...]
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