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Papyrus letter about finding a new tenant and selling a pearl in Fusṭāṭ, and a statement of accounts

Title	Papyrus letter about finding a new tenant and selling a pearl in Fusṭāṭ, and a statement of accounts
Publication Date:	800-900 (undated)
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	410 mm x 218 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Is Pp18
Library Location	Islamic Collection
Date	800-900 (undated)
Notes	Papyrus letter about finding a new tenant and selling a pearl in Fusṭāṭ, and a statement of accounts. Folio fragment, ink on light to medium brown papyrus, mounted on paper and framed under glass, Arabic text, written perpendicular to the fibres, two separate documents, (on recto:) letter from a property-owner in Fayyūm asking a friend in Fusṭāṭ to get his estate agent Zayd ibn Muzāḥim to find a new tenant for a recently-vacated room with the rent set between 6 and 8 dinars a year, and then as a postscript, he asks the friend to follow up an expected payment of 16 dinars for a pearl that was recently sold by `Alā’ the jeweller, (on verso, added later:) list of accounts, in two columns, recording personal names and the money owed or received (in dirhams), unsigned, al-Fayyūm, Egypt, undated, c. 800-900
Materyal	Papyrus (material), Ink (material)
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Müstensih ve Üretim Yeri	Unknown, Al-Fayyūm
Yazı Tipi	Naskh script

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Papyrus letter about finding a new tenant and selling a pearl in Fusṭāṭ, and a statement of accounts

Publication Date 800-900 (undated)

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 410 mm x 218 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Is Pp18

Library Location Islamic Collection

Date 800-900 (undated)

Notes Papyrus letter about finding a new tenant and selling a pearl in Fusṭāṭ, and a statement of accounts. Folio fragment, ink on light to medium brown papyrus, mounted on paper and framed under glass, Arabic text, written perpendicular to the fibres, two separate documents, (on recto:) letter from a property-owner in Fayyūm asking a friend in Fusṭāṭ to get his estate agent Zayd ibn Muzāḥim to find a new tenant for a recently-vacated room with the rent set between 6 and 8 dinars a year, and then as a postscript, he asks the friend to follow up an expected payment of 16 dinars for a pearl that was recently sold by `Alā’ the jeweller, (on verso, added later:) list of accounts, in two columns, recording personal names and the money owed or received (in dirhams), unsigned, al-Fayyūm, Egypt, undated, c. 800-900

Materyal Papyrus (material), Ink (material)

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

Müstensih ve Üretim Yeri Unknown, Al-Fayyūm

Yazı Tipi Naskh script