caa a22 4500 388065591 CHVBK 20180307125132.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0041977X00017547 doi S0041977X00017547 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0041977X00017547 Richards D. S. Oriental Institute, Oxford A Late Mamluk Document Concerning Frankish Commercial Practice at Tripoli [Elektronische Daten] [D. S. Richards] Much has been written about the trading relations of the Italian states with the Levant in the period of the Crusades and the late Middle Ages. The bulk of the material that has made these studies possible has been provided by the voluminous archives of the various Italian cities, which also contain a few treaties and letters that originated from Muslim authorities (largely of the Mamluk period) and have been preserved in the original and/or in translation. The document to be presented here was addressed to various officials in Tripoli, that is, Tarābulus al-Shām, and dates from near the end of the Mamluk sultanate. It is an order for the attention of the Mamluk authorities only, intended to govern commercial dealings in Tripoli as they were unilaterally understood. The document is not to be thought of as comparable with the so-called ‘treaties', which were draw up after a process of negotiation although they were ultimately expressed as independent decrees of the Sultan. One can only wonder at the chance survival of this undoubtedly genuine piece. It is now held in the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, under the number OIM 13787. It was purchased in 1929 from Dr Bernhard Moritz, one-time librarian of the Khedivial Library in Cairo, and its provenance beyond that point is unknown. Three other Mamluk documents of the same period, which are relevant to affairs at Tripoli, survive in the archives of St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, namely nos. LXIX, LXX and LXXI of those published by Ernst. The first of these three refers to the monastery's waqf property at Tripoli, but the other two have absolutely no connection with any interests or affairs of the monastery, and it is difficult to imagine how they found their way there. Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1999 Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Cambridge University Press 62/1(1999-01), 21-35 0041-977X 62:1<21 1999 62 BSO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00017547 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00017547 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Richards D. S. Oriental Institute, Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Cambridge University Press 62/1(1999-01), 21-35 0041-977X 62:1<21 1999 62 BSO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge