Letter: T-S 12.369

Letter T-S 12.369

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T-S 12.369
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Judaeo-Arabic

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Letter from Eliyya b. Yehuda b. Yahya from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1050. The writer is on a ship that is about to sail in the morning to al-Lādhiqiyya (Latakia). He expresses concern about a qunbār that was forced to stop at the shore. He also mentions two ships of Abū ʿAbdallah (Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ), a qārib of Bū ʿAlī al-Shāmī and three ships from the Shām. Also mentions a shipment of camphor and the account of Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmar. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #706) VMR

T-S 12.369 1r

1r

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T-S 12.369 1v

1v
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