184 notes to page 55
entries in ACA, RP, MR, 774. See also Carme Batlle i Gallart, “La casa barce-
lonina en el segle XIII: l’exemple de la familia Dufort,” in La Ciudad hispánica
durante los siglos XIII al XVI: actas del coloquio celebrado en La Rábida y Sevilla
del 14 al 19 de septiembre de 1981 , ed. Emilio Sáez, Cristina Segura, and Margarita
Cantera Montenegro, II: 1347 – 60. Similarly, Raimundus Escorne met with the
troops of Mahomet Abenadalil, Mahomet al Granadaxi, and Iuceff Abenzubayba
when they arrived in Valencia and provided them their salaries and anything else
they required. ACA, R. 73 , fol. 77 v ( 28 Feb. 1289 ): “... que luego vista la carta
vengades a Valencia on nos avemos ordenado que fiel nostre escriviano Raimund
Escorna vos de recaudo de venir a nos de quitacio et de lo que ayades menester.”
9. See Hugh Kennedy, Armies of the Caliphs: Military and Society in the Early
Islamic State, esp. 59 – 65 , 71 – 76 ; Évariste Lévi- Provençal, Un recueil de lettres
officielles Almohades: Étude diplomatique, analyse et commentaire historique,
esp. 1 – 19. See also EI 2 , s.v. “dīwān”; and HEM, I: 69 , 128.
10. Alcover, Diccionari català- valencià- balear, s.v. “albaran.” In Spanish, it is
“albarán.” The influence in this case was likely indirect, passing through the Papal
Chancery to the Aragonese court.
11. Shatzmiller, The Berbers and the Islamic State, 55 – 68 ; David Corcos, “The
Jews of Morocco under the Marinids,” Jewish Quarterly Review 54 ( 1963 – 64 ):
271 – 87 ; 55 ( 1964 – 65 ), 53 – 81 , 137 – 50 ; Norman Stillman, “Muslims and Jews in
Morocco,” Jerusalem Quarterly 5 ( 1977 ): 76 – 83 ; and idem, “The Moroccan Jewish
Experience,” Jerusalem Quarterly 9 ( 1978 ): 111 – 23.
12. In 1285 King Pere ordered Arnaldus to release several captives from Tu-
nis who had paid for their redemption (ACA, R. 65 , fol. 27 r [ 30 Mar. 1285 ]). He
helped administer the slave auctions in Mallorca after the fall of Minorca (ACA,
R. 70 , fol. 42 r [ 7 Feb. 1287 ], R. 71 , fol. 113 v [ 10 Apr. 1287 ], R. 72 , fol. 41 r [ 27 June
1288 ]). He also reimbursed Muslim diplomats for their travel expenses (ACA,
R. 74 , fol. 71 r [ 6 Feb. 1288 ]).
13. Haste was required in the case of the jenet Mahomet Abenabderasmen
Ataç. See ACA, R. 67 , fol. 77 r – v ( 20 Sep. 1286 ): “Petro de Podio Rubeo, baiulo
Algezire. Mandamus vobis quatenus de illis tribus milibus solidis regalium quos
vos
tis et solvatis solutis et cetera Mahome[t] Aben[abderas]men Ataç quadringentos
solidos, a Abdorramen filio Abdolmalich Abenfa[y]ina quingentos solidos, item
Iuceffo Aveniacob Avenjacol Abenabdulfach CCC LXX solidos, item a Magderva
<quadringentos solidos, item a Amoç ducentos solidos, item a Mansor Matino
Detzayn Abenmiquel sexaginta solidos, item Abraym Abenhame.... [ce]ntum
vinginti [solidos], item a Assar centum solidos, item a Ayssa Avenfarrat tribus
sociis suis nonag[intos]... solidos. [I]t[em a] Alfaig [....] sociis suis centum
vinginti solidos, item Machometo> [fol. 77 v] Abenfayol quingentos solidos, quos
omnes denarios predictis janetis debemus pro quitacionibus eorumdem sine
acurri[....]... solucionibus et etiam caveatis vobis ne racione predicte solutionis