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Michaelides Fragments: Arabic : Letter

Michaelides Fragments: Arabic

<p style='text-align: justify;'><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(1);return false;'>Recto:</a> Text opens, after basmala: اطال الله بقاك وادام عزك. Concerns a sea voyage. The address is written in the top margin, upside down relative to the text of the letter: لابى رافع اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه من على ان سعيد. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(2);return false;'>Verso:</a> Opens after basmala: الله بقاك وادام عزك. Refers to the cultivation of sugar cane (زرع الارض قصب). Closes with the same blessings as it began with. </p>

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