Letter: T-S 8.27

Letter T-S 8.27

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T-S 8.27
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic
Secondary Language
Arabic

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India Book (IB) II, 10: Memorandum to a traveler carrying Indian goods to Yiṣḥaq b. Bundar. India, ca. 1110.

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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T-S 8.27 1r

1r
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

  1. [....] בעד כרוגך אללה יגמע ביננא קריב פי כיר וע[אפיה]
  2. ואעלמך אחיאך אללה אן אלדי וגהת מעך ט קטע מנהא ה [... לך ו ]
  3. בז ופוט ועדל סנבל פאמא אללך פמנה עדל ונצף לעלי [...]
  4. לפהד ואלבז מנה עדל ליחיי ועדל לאברהים ואסחק [...]
  5. פוט פיה ט אתואב לפהד ועלי לפהד פיהא אלרבע ואלבז [...]
  6. אתואב ליחיי מן וסט אלתיאב ואלפוט הי ה כוארג ודסתי[ן ...]
  7. לך וכורגה לפהד וכורגתין ודסתין לאסחק ואברהים וא[לנצף]
  8. איצא ונצפה לך וליחיי מנה //ליחיי\\ אלסדס ואנפדת צחבתך א[יצא ...]
  9. ג כוארג ורבע מדאסאת מנהא כורגה וג אזואג [...]
  10. ליעקוב ורבע כורגה לצבי אב[רה]ים וזוג ואחד לאבו [...]
  11. ואלזוגין אלצגאר מנהם ואחד לאבו אלפתח ואלאכר לע[לי ...]
  12. [...] מנהא [...] ל.. אל... .. ל[.....]ל [...]
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.

recto

  1. [. . .] {add: after your departure.} May God bring us together soon in well-being and h[ealth!...]
  2. Take notice—may God keep you alive!— that I sent with you nine items, namely [lac, ...] 
  3. textiles, fūṭas, and a bale of spikenard. Of the lac, one and a half bales are for ʿAlī [and the…]
  4. for Fahd. Of the textiles, one bale for Yaḥyā, and one for Ibrahīm and Isḥāq [...In the bale of]
  5. fūṭas are nine thawbs (robes) for Fahd and ʿAlī. One fourth of this is for Fahd. Of the textiles [...so-and-so many]
  6. thawbs (robes) are for Yaḥyā, out of the thawbs (robes) {alt. tr.: of average apparel}. There are five kawrajas (twenties) and two dasts (dozens) of fūṭas. [Of these such-and-such are]
  7. for you, one kawraja for Fahd, and two kawrajas and two dasts for Isḥāq and Ibrāhim [and one-half of…]
  8. too. The other half is for you and Yaḥyā, namely \\for Yaḥyā// one-sixth. I sent with you also [. . .]
  9. 3 ¼ kawrajas of shoes, one kawraja and three pairs [for… and…]
  10. for Yaʿqūb, one-quarter kawraja for the boy of Ib[rāhīm] and one pair for Abū [. . .]
  11. and of the two pairs of small size one is for Abū ʾl-Fatḥ and the other for [. . .]

T-S 8.27 1v

1v

verso

  1. .... [...] יצל עדן אן שא אללה
  2. [אטאל אללה] בקאה
  3. [ﺒﻤ]ارك بن سهل الإسرائيلي محبه يوسف بن مسعود الإسرائيلي
  4. [ ] وادام عزه يصل عدن سلمها لله دكان الشيخ اسحق
  5. بن بندا ر

verso, address

  1. (To) [...May God lengthen] his life! To Aden, God willing.
  2. [(To)...Mub]ārak b. Sahl, the Israelite.
  3. [May God lengthen his life] and make his honored position permanent!
  4. (From) His friend Yūsuf ( Joseph) b. Masʿūd, the Israelite.
  5. To be delivered to Aden—may God keep it prosperous!—to the store of Sheikh Isḥāq b. Bundār.
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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S 8.27. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/5437/, accessed January 15, 2025.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/5437/