notes to pages 55–56 185
dicti janeti habeant retardare, alia[s]...
janeti facere haberent. Datum Valencie, XII kalendas Octobris.” See also ACA,
R. 71 , fol. 45 r ( 29 Apr. 1287 ): “Petro Peregrini quod det Mahometo Abolxahe
janeto... et recipia[t] ipsi albar[anum]... hoc Arnaldum de Bastida.” See also
ACA, R. 71 , fol. 49 v; ACA, R. 71 , fol. 50 v; ACA, R. 71 , fol. 51 v; and ACA, R. 100 ,
fol. 172 v.
14. See, for instance, ACA, R. 65 , fol. 186 v ( 2 Mar. 1286 ), in which Bastida
is ordered to pay three jenets their salaries for two months with one albaranum:
“[Arnaldo] de Bastida. Cum Sehit Abdella et Jucefo Aben Jacob et Cassim et
Abra[hi]mo Benhamenia [solvat] pro quitacionibus eorum mensium Septembris
et Octobris cum albarano Bartholomei de V[illa] Franch[a]... solidos Barchi-
nonenses quod albaranum [nos] recuperavimus.” The amount that each jenet was
paid appears in the documentary lacuna.
15. ACA, R. 52 , fol. 57 r ( 29 Aug. 1284 ): “Bernardo Scr[ibe] quod det vel assig-
net Muçe Genet LIII solidos IIII denarios iaccenses qui sibi remanent [ad] solven-
dum de quitacione Albarrasini. Datum Turole, IIII kalendas Septembris.”
16. For more on the currency of the Crown of Aragon, see James Broadman,
Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain: The Order of Merced on the Christian-
Islamic Frontier, appendix A. See also Robert Ignatius Burns, Medieval Colonial-
ism: Postcrusade Exploitation of Islamic Valencia, 27 – 33.
17. 1 libra = 20 solidi = 240 denarii.
18. In the year 1300 , one solidus from Barcelona was equivalent to one solidus
six denarii from Jaca, and one solidus three denarii from Valencia. The Latin soli-
dus gives us the Castilian sueldo and Catalan sou.
19. For instance, ACA, R. 82 , fol. 66 v ( 3 or 4 Sep. 1290 ): “Eidem fuit scriptum
[al]iud albaranum quod solvit nobili [Ma]hometo Abnadalyl pro quitacione sua
et familia s[u]e quae cum eo venerunt de Granata pro mense Augusti preterito
DXXXVI duplas mirias. Item pro quitacione Sarracenorum peditum pro dicto
mense et pro esmend[o] unius equi qui fuit interfectus in rambla Valencie super
ludo janethie XXXII duplas et med[ia]m mirias”; and ACA, RP, MR, 620 , fol. 69 r
( 1294 ): “Primerament nos mostra VI albarans den A Eymeric en los quals son
deguts an Jahia Abenallu e an Ayça e an Mahomet Bennaçer et an Zahit Almelo-
caya e an Mahomet Algaçil //per quitacion lur// genets del Seynor Rey Namfos de
bonamemoria per quitacion lur. L doblas mirias. E CXX solidos Barchinonenses.”
For more on Islamic coins in the Crown of Aragon, see Joaquím Botet i Sisó,
“Nota sobre la encunyació de monedas arábigues pel Rey Don Jaume,” in Congrés
d’històriala Corona d’Aragó, dedicat al rey En Jaume I y la seua época, II: 944 – 45.
20. Çayt Abdella, 120 sous or 4 sous per diem (ACA, R. 71 , fol. 49 v); Maymon
de Picaçen, 266 sous of Barcelona or 3 sous per diem (ACA, R. 71 , fol. 50 v);
Mahomet and three brothers, 496 sous of Barcelona or 4 sous per diem (ACA,
R. 71 , fol. 51 v); Mahomet and three brothers, 448 sous of Barcelona or 4 sous per
diem (ACA, R. 71 , fol. 51 v); Zayt and brother, 248 sous of Barcelona or 4 sous