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Tag: perfumer
2 records found
Letter from a perfumer, submitting an account to the addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 12th or early 13th century. Numbers are given in Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions people such as al-Melammed and al-Shaykh al-Makīn. Mentions goods such as bamboo chalk (ṭabāshīr) and vessels (qawārīr and zanābīr). The first sum named is nearly 2000 (dirhams?); the final sum at the bottom of the page is torn away. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 6 Tishrei 1530 Seleucid, which is 1218 CE. Inventory of a dead perfumer's shop, taken for purposes of dividing the goods between his son Abū l-Faḍl and Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Manṣūr. The executor is Netanel ha-Sar ha-Rofe. Goods include ʿabīr; ʿūd; rāwand. On verso there is a note in a different hand with the name of a woman. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
