State document: T-S AS 184.45

State document T-S AS 184.45

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Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm and for the appointed treasurers. Dated: end of Jumādā I 402 (29 December 1011 CE) according to Bondioli, Luescher, Rustow, and Vanthieghem (Khan reads 403). Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Amount: one dīnār exactly (Khan reads 3 and a half and a sixteenth). Verso is blank. Prior description: Receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of Accounts on behalf of the Office of Supervision: Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb has paid the sum of 3 and a half and a sixteenth (dirhams?) for the estates in Al-Fayyūm, under the supervision of the judge Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, of the protégé of the commander of the faithful Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Bahār, and the accountant Abū l-Sarī Theodor b. Yuḥannis. Dated 13 Jumādā II, 403 AH (= December 1012 CE). (same as T-S AS 184.45). (information from CUDL)

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T-S AS 184.45 1r

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

Recto

  1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف ان شا الله        [يثبت بديوان العمل]
  2. اثبتو المبلغ ........                                       ان شا الله ثلاثة ونصف ونصف ثمن
  3. والحمد لله على نعمه ان شا الله                  اثبتو المبلغ ثلاثة ونصف
  4.                                                                الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين
  5. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صح يثبت ان شا الله
  6. بسم صح لابو الحسن بن وهب من ضمانه للضيع بمدينة [ [الفيوم ] ] الفيوم
  7. لسنة ثلاث واربعمائة واستخرج فى مجلس المخزن السعيد وسلم للخزانة المعمور
  8. بحضور القاضى فخر الدولة ابو الفضل جعفر بن ابرهيم بن سليمان المستخدم بحفظ
  9. المستخرج وضبطه
  10. النصف من ذلك نصف وواحد    مبلغه ثلاثة ونصف ونصف ثمن والمبلغ ثلاثة ونصف ونصف ثمن
  11. وكتب ميخائيل بن عبد المسيح الجهبذ ذلك بخطه صح منسلخ جمادى الاولى سنة ثلاث واربعمائة
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Recto

  1. [Let it be registered in the office of accounts,]
  2. if God wills.
  3. They have registered the amount of three and a half.
  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 three and it was received in the auspicious. chamber of the treasury and was delivered to the glorious warehouse,
  8. in the presence of the judge Faḵr al-Dawla ʾAbū al-Faḍl Jaʿfar ibn ʾIbrāhīm ibn Sulaymān, who was responsible for the safekeeping
  9. and the recording of cash received. 
  10. Half of this: One and a half. Its amount: Three and a half and a sixteenth. Its  amount: Three and a half and a sixteenth.
  11. Mīḵāʾīl ibn 'Abd al-Masīḥ, the cashier wrote this with his own hand. Valid. The end of Jumādā I, in the year four-hundred and three. 

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  1. Let it be registered on behalf of the office of supervision, if God wills.
  2. They have registered the amount of ....... three, a half and a sixteenth.
  3. Praise be to God for his bounties, if God wills.

T-S AS 184.45 1v

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