وثيقة رسميّة: ENA 3941.4
وثيقة رسميّة ENA 3941.4What's in the PGP
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الوصف
Official salary receipt issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria. Dated: Jumādā II 1239 AH (1824 CE). In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: "This brief document is a receipt for a salary payment from the director of a silk factory in Alexandria to the gatekeeper (bawwāb) of the wakāla where the factory was probably located.... Ibrāhīm, the gatekeeper of the Wakālat al-Bīṭāsh, receives a salary of 20 pāras... from the grandee al-Ḥājj ʿUmar Agha, who is styled nāẓir anwāl al-ḥarīr, or supervisor of the silk looms." (Hathaway, Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah, 163)
Editor: Hathaway, Jane
Translator: Hathaway, Jane (in English)
ENA 3941.4 recto
Recto
- وداعة
- من يد قدرة الاكابر وعمدة الاعيان ذو العز والشان حضرة
- سيدنا الامير المكرم الحاج عمر اغاه ناظر انوال الحرير لثغر سكندرية وذالك
- قبض ابراهيم بواب وكالة البيطاش نظير جمكيته المقييدة
- بديوان انوال الحرير بالثغر المذكور عن شهر جماد اخر سنة ١٢٣٩ تسعة وثلاثون
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- شهر: ١
- عشرين
- بارة غروش[؟]
- ستة
- ٢٠ ٦
Below
- ستة غروش رومي وبارة عشرين فقط لاغيير
Witness
- شهد بذالك
- احمد غانم الحجرةجي [؟]
- الزبيدي [؟]
Recto
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Deposits
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from the hand of the exemplar of the great and support of
the notables, of power and renown, his excellency
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our master the noble amīr al-Ḥājj ʿUmar Agha, supervisor of the silk looms for the port of Alexandria. That [amount]
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was collected by Ibrāhīm, the gatekeeper of Wakālat al- Bīṭāsh, as his salary, registered
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in the Bureau of Silk Looms in the aforementioned port for the month of Jumād[ā al-]Ākhir, the year 1239, thirty-nine [~ February 1824].
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- Month: 1
- twenty
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pāras ghurūsh [?]
- six
- 20 6
Below
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Six Rūmī ghurūsh and twenty pāras only, nothing else.
Witness
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Aḥmad Ghānim al-Zabīdī [?] the ḥücreci [?] (chamber-supervisor)
- bore witness to that.
ENA 3941.4 verso
