Front matter
Isaac Bird translation
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
Translation of the Life of Omar ibn Said: Manuscript No. 1
Transcriber’s Notes: This document was transcribed from a handwritten text. The author later made changes and insertions which are marked like this [↑my], meaning the word “my” was written as an insertion at that point. There was no page numbered 5 in the manuscript. In the paragraph beginning “I gave alms every year, gold,” there is an illegible word. Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. Typographical errors were silently corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.
1Omar ben Saeed