Publication Date
2nd half of the 12th century (2nd half of the 6th century AH) or beginning of the 13th century (or beginning of the 7th century AH), 14th Ǧumādā (l-ʾawwal)
Publication Place
Egypt -
Egypt
Subject
Letter, Yūsuf to Amīnaddīn, merchant, purchase of grain, goods (cloth, hazelnuts, pepper, raw silk), archive: Amīnaddīn, documentary
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Austrian National Library
Record ID
RZ00004922
Date
2nd half of the 12th century (2nd half of the 6th century AH) or beginning of the 13th century (or beginning of the 7th century AH), 14th Ǧumādā (l-ʾawwal)
Notes
Italics (literate and sweeping; ligatures), notes: P.Vind.Arab. I 44-46 from the archive of a merchant named Amīnaddīn (based in Fustat), most likely found together in situ, literature: Photo(s): P.Vind.Arab. I, plate 53, literature: P.Vind.Arab. I 46 (= Diem, W., Arabic business letters from the 10th to 14th centuries from the Austrian National Library in Vienna (Documenta Arabica Antiqua, Vol. 1), Wiesbaden 1995, No. 46), Literature: Sijpesteijn, P. M., 'Help, a crocodile ate my passport', in: Zdiarsky, A. (ed.), Divine and eaten. The ambivalent relationship between humans and animals around land on the Nile (Nilus 28), Vienna 2024, pp. 70-71
İçerik Hakkında
kräftiges, dickes, braunes Papier; schwarze Tinte; alle Ränder abgeschnitten; Rekto/Verso: Text an einigen Stellen verblaßt; zahlreiche horizontale Faltungen