Tag: flax

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Fragment from a private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. 1049. Some details about trades of pearls and beads. This document seems like a draft for the account that Nahray sent to Barhun b. Yitzhak ha-Tahirti (see: Bodl. MS heb. e 98/64-65). In this list writes details about buying flax in Munimun and its shipment to Rashid, and probably from there to Alexandria. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #275) VMR
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic, mentioning pepper, flax, Rashid. Recto is a list of names including several people from al-Maḥalla.
Letter from Barhun b. Salah al-Tahirti, from Mahdiyya to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1045. Barhun is in the Maghreb and makes business with the people of Qayrawan, Safakus, Tripoli (Libya) and he is planning to travel to Sicily as well. Mentions gems, nuts, and flax. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #328) VMR