State document: BL OR 5557B.17

State document BL OR 5557B.17

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BL OR 5557B.17
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Primary Language
Arabic

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Contract of lease for an irrigation channel on the jazīra of Fustat (the Nile island later known as Rawḍa). Dated: 18 (or maybe 28?) Shawwāl 407 AH (March 1017 CE). The lessees are Maḥāṣin b. Sayyidihim b. ʿAbdallāh; Muḥammad b. Abdallāh; Abū l-Faraj b. Sayyidihm; Khalīl al-Naṣrānī; Sulaymān b. Maḥāsin b. Naṣr al-Naṣrānī. The lease is for a period of 5 months, beginning on 23 Shawwāl 407. The lessees are to pay 600 dirhams paid in 5 monthly installments (munajjama) of 120 dirhams. The property borders that of the town (Fustat) and contains an orchard of date palms, strawberries, sycamore. No signatures are preserved. Reused for Hebrew poetry.

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British Library
Historical shelfmarks
BM Or 5557B, fol. 17; BM Or 5557B, f. 17
Input date
In PGP since 2016
British Library, BL OR 5557B.17. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/30831/, accessed November 27, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/30831/