In addition, mentions details about silk, leather, oil, and lead being exported from Sicily. Jessica Goldberg opens her book Trade and Institutions in the MedievalMediterranean with a beautiful and gripping unravelling of the contents of this letter:
"Around the year 1050 a bale sat on the shore at the port of Mazara in western Sicily. […]
Quoted from Goldberg, Trade and Institutions in the MedievalMediterranean (Cambridge UP, 2012), pp. 1–2.
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[ אסל אללה] יגעל עאקבתך חסנה ואן לא יכלאך
[ אהתמא]מך בחואיגי ובגמיע מע יכצני
[ ] גמיע אלוגוה פלא אכלאני אללה מן
[ ] גמיע מן יחתאגך תם …
I sent for the partnership of the elder Abū Isḥaq on
the ship of Ibn Abī ʿAqīl, the large one, 12 bundles of lead whose value comes to 200 quarter dinars and a bit
for the partnership of the elder Abū ʿAlī.
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תגים
תעתוק אחד
2 תרגומים
דיון אחד