State document: T-S Ar.40.142.1

State document T-S Ar.40.142.1

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T-S Ar.40.142.1
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Arabic

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Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 17 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405 (Khan reads 402). Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ the jahbadh and registered by the Dīwān al-ʿAmal only. Payment made under the supervision of three officials: (1) the auspicious, rightly guided qāḍī Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Nahār; (2) on behalf of the fiduciary qāḍī Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Nahār; and (3) under the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b. Qūrīl. Note: Khan's publication reverses the numbers of the two folios under this shelfmark.

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Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb
Validating judge
Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Nahār, Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā
Legal and state personnel
Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b. Qūrīl
Scribe
Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ

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Mentioned
Dhāt al-Ṣafā, Madīnat al-Fayyūm

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 40, fol. 142.1; T-S Ar.40.142; TS Arabic Box 40, f. 142.1
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T-S Ar.40.142.1 1r

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

Recto

  1.                                       يثبت بديوان العمل
  2.                                        ان شا الله
  3. اثبتو المبلغ ربع واثنين        اثبتو المبلغ ربع واثنين
  4. والحمد لله على نعمه           والحمد لله حمد الشاكرين
  5. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
  6. لابو الحسن بن وهب من ضمانه للضيع بمدينة الفيوم
  7. لسنة اثنتين واربعمائة بمشارفة القاضى السعيد الرشيد ثقة الملك
  8. مكين الدولة وامينها صنيعة امير المومنين ابى الحسن على بن بهار ونيابة
  9. و القاضى الموتمن ابو على الحسن بن يحيى بن بهار وعمالة الشيخ
  10. سديد الدولة ابو الفرج عبد المسيح بن قوريل
  11. النصف من ذلك ثمن وواحد                 مبلغه ربع واثنين
  12. وكتب ميخائيل بن عبد المسيح الجهبذ صح السابع عشر من ذى القعدة
  13.                سنة اثنتين واربعمائة
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Recto

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  1. Let it be registered in the office of accounts,
  2. if God wills.
  3. They have registered the amount of two and a quarter.
  4. Praise be to God, with the praise of those who give thanks.
  5. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
  6. 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
  7. for the year four-hundred and two, under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly-guided judge, Ṯiqat al-Mulk
  8. Makīn al-Dawla wa-ʾAmīnuhā, the protégé of the commander of the faithful, ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Bahār, and (his) deputy,
  9. the trusted judge ʾAbū al-ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā ibn Bahār, with the elder
  10. Sadīd al-Dawla ʾAbū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ ibn Qūrīl acting as accountant.
  11. Half of this: One and an eighth. Its amount: Two and a quarter.
  12. Written by Mīḵaʾīl ibn ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier. Valid. The seventeenth of Ḏū al-Qaʿda,
  13. in the year four-hundred and two.

Registration mark on right

3. They have registered the amount of two and a quarter.

4. Praise be to God for his bounties.

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