Michaelides Fragments: Arabic : Legal acknowledgement + letter
Michaelides Fragments: Arabic
<p style='text-align: justify;'><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(1);return false;'>Recto:</a> Fragment of a legal acknowledgement (ʼiqrār). A fragment of the date at the end read وستين ومائتين ... 'two-hundred and sixty-...'. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(2);return false;'>Verso:</a> Text opens after the basmala with the blessing: اطال الله بقاك وامعم صباحك. The body of the letter refers to various commercial transactions involving commodities that are mostly measured in raṭls. </p>