Scholarship on State document: T-S Ar.40.142.1

State document T-S Ar.40.142.1
  1. Bibliographic citation
    Lorenzo Bondioli, Stephanie Luescher, Marina Rustow and Naïm Vanthieghem, A Fatimid Tax Archive from the Fayyūm: The Receipts of Abū l-Ḥasan ibn Wahb, 402–405/1012–1015 (in progress) (n.p., n.d.).
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    • doc. 52
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  2. Bibliographic citation
    Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
    Location in source
    • doc. 142
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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).

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  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.

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

4. Praise be to God for his bounties.

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