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Tag: skins
3 records found
Accounts in the hand of Nissim b. Ḥalfon, presented to Nahray b. Nissim; 1066 CE. Lists payments for various goods, made either directly or through others, and gives details of various shipments, some of them to Tripoli, Libya. Mentions skins, textiles, beads, sugar, red wood, ammonia, furs, lead, baked goods, wine, meat, camphor, wax, tin, cloves, pearls and laque. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, p. 986.)
Fragment of a letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, probably to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. The letter deals with trades, especially of fabrics. Nahray is asked to urgently provide parchment in order for Israel to do his job. The last part is about Avraham b. ha-Gaon Shelomo b. Yehuda. (Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 3, pp. 145-148, #472) VMR
An account from Sicily listing 63 ox hides from Syracuse and 76 buck skins. The sums are mentioned in rubaiyat (quarters of dinars). Dated to the mid 11th century. Written by Yeshua b. Ismail al-Makhmuri (Gil). (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 111; Gil, Kingdom, vol. 3, p. 69, and Ben-Sasson, Yehudei Sitzilya, p. 337)
