Scholarship on State document: T-S Ar.39.26

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

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

Let it be registered in the office of accounts.
if God wills.
They have registered the amount of two and a half.
Praise be to God, with the praise of those who give thanks.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
A valid receipt has been granted to ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ibn Wahb for the sum owed through his standing surety for the estates in the town of al-Fayyūm for the year four-hundred and five,
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, and in the presence of the judge Ṣafī al-Dawla
ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Ḥasan, the agent of the office of inspection, with the elder
Sadīd al-Dawla ʾAbū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ ibn Qūrīl acting as accountant.
Half of this: One and a quarter. Its amount: Two and a half.
Written by Yuḥanna ibn Mīḵāʾīl on behalf of his father Mīḵāʾīl ibn ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier. Valid.
The twenty seventh of Ṣafar, in the year four-hundred and five.

T-S Ar.39.26 1r