State document: T-S Ar.39.205
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Receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 21 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. Amount: one-half, one-third, one-eighth, and a ḥabba (Khan reads one-half, one-third, one-eighth and two). Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Measurements: 10.5 × 8.2 cm. The verso is blank.
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Editor: Khan, Geoffrey
Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S Ar.39.205 1r
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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
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- [يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف يثبت بديوان العمل]
- [ان شا الله ان شا الله]
- اثبتو المبلغ [نصف وثلث اثبتو المبلغ نصف وثلث] وثمن [واثنين] [ثمن واثنين]
- والحمد لله حمد الشاكرين والـ[ـحمد لله على نعمه]
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- صح للخزان بالاعمال الفيومية واقام به ابو الحسن بن و [هـ]ـب قيم [ ضياع ]
- لسنة ثلاث واربعمائة بمشارفة القاضى السعيد الرشيد ثقة الملك مكين الدولة
- وامينها صنيعة امير المومنين ابى الحسن على بن بهار وعمالة ابو السرى و
- ثيدر بن يحنس
- النصف من ذلك ثلث وثمن وواحد مبلغه نصف وثلث وثمن واثنين
- وكتب ميخائيل بن عبد المسيح الجهبذ صح الخامس والعشرين من ذى الحجة
- سنة ثلاث واربعمائة
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
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Registration mark on right
- [Let it be registered on behalf of the office of supervision,]
- [if God wills.]
- They have registered the amount of [two], a half, a third and an eighth.
- Praise be to God, with the praise of those who give thanks.
Registration mark on left
- [Let it be registered in the office of accounts,]
- [if God wills.]
- [They have registered the amount of two, a half, a third and an eighth.]
- [Praise be to God for his bounties.]
- In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
- A valid receipt has been granted to the warehouse-keeper in the province of al-Fayyūm on behalf of ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ibn Wahb, the estate manager,
- for the year four-hundred and three, under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly-guided judge, Ṯiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla
- wa-ʾAmīnuhā, the protégé of the commander of the faithful, ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Bahār, with ʾAbū al-Sarī
- Theodor ibn Yuḥannis acting as accountant.
- Half of this: One, a third and an eight. Its amount: Two, a half, a third and an eighth dinārs.
- Written by Mīḵā'īl ibn ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier. Valid. The twenty-fifth of Ḏũ al-Ḥijja
- in the year four-hundred and three.
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