State document: T-S AS 181.226
State document T-S AS 181.226What's in the PGP
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Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: Beginning of Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. Amount: one-quarter, one-sixth, and one-half of one-eighth (Khan reads two, one-quarter and one-sixth). Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Measurements: 12.5 × 8.4 cm. The verso is blank.
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Editor: Khan, Geoffrey
Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S AS 181.226 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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- يثـ[ـبت نيابة عن ديوان الا]شراف يثبت بديوان العمل
- ان شا الله ان شا الله
- [اثبتو المبلغ] ربع وسدس واثنين
- والحمد لله على نعمه
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- صح لابو الحسن بن وهب من ضمانه للضيع بمدينة الفيوم لسنة ثلاث واربعمائة
- بمشارفة القاضى السعيد الرشيد ثقة الملك مكين الدولة وامينها صنيعة امير المومنين
- ابى الحسن على بن بهار وعمالة ابو السرى ثيدر بن يحنس
- و النصف من ذلك ثمن وقيراطين وواحد مبلغه ربع وسدس واثنين
- وكتب ميخائيل بن عبد المسيح الجهبذ صح مستهل ذى الحجة
- سنة ثلاث واربعمائة
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Recto
Registration mark on right
- [Let it be registered on behalf of the office o]f supervision,
- if God wills.
Registration mark on left
- Let it be registered in the office of accounts,
- if God wills.
- [They have registered the amount of] two, a quarter and a sixth.
- Praise be to God for his bounties.
- 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 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, an eighth and two qīrāts (= a twelfth). Its amount: Two, a quarter and a sixth.
- Written by Mīḵāʾīl ibn ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier. Valid. The beginning of Ḏū al-Ḥijja,
- in the year four-hundred and three.
T-S AS 181.226 1v
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