State document: T-S AS 181.163

State document T-S AS 181.163

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T-S AS 181.163
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Copy of a receipt of payment for two months of ground rent (ḥikr) in Qasr al-Shamʿ issued to the elder Abū Ḥasan b. Efrayim b. Maḥfūẓ, written by Ismaʿīl b. Ḍiyā. The total payment was 1/4 dinar in cash. Dated: Jumādā II 439 AH, which is 1047 AH. (The payments themselves were for Rabīʿ ī and Rabīʿ II 439 AH.) (Information from CUDL and Khan.)

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Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (neighborhood)

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T-S AS 181.163 1v

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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Verso (recto in Khan's edition)

  1.                                الحمد لله وحده
  2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
  3. صح للشيخ ابى حسن بن افرایم بن محفوظ عن الحكر بقصر الشمع لشهر ربيع الاول
  4. وشهر ربيع الاخر سنة تسع وثلثين واربعمائة       من العين ربع دينار
  5. نصفه η
  6. وكتب اسمعيل بن ضيا عن نسخة سلم الشهود فى جمدى الاخرة من السنة المذكورة
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Verso

  1. Praise be to God alone.
  2. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
  3. A valid record has been made for the elder 'Abū Ḥasan ibn ʾEfrayim ibn Maḥfūẓ (releasing him) from the ground rent in the Fortress of the Candles for the month of Rabīʿ I 
  4. and the month Rabīʿ II of the year four-hundred and thirty-nine. One quarter of a dīnār, in cash. 
  5. Half of this is 1/8.
  6. Written by ʾIsmaʿīl ibn Ḍiyāʾ from a copy submitted by the witnesses in Jumādā II of the aforementioned year.

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