State document: T-S AS 183.28

State document T-S AS 183.28

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T-S AS 183.28
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Recto: very damaged text of a makhzuma (ledger of receipts). Verso: makhzūma (ledger of receipts) submitted in Rajab 495 AH (= April-May 1102 CE) by Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, representative of a sugar cane extraction factory (al-maṭbakh) and a honey factory (dār al-ʿasal), to the office of supervision (dīwān al-ishrāf). The makhzūma is witnessed and signed by ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī. The accounts are for the kharājī years 490 and 491, corresponding respectively to 493/94 H and 494/95 H. The eighth and ninth months of the Coptic calendar, Baramouda and Bashans, are mentioned. The makhzūma was so named, apparently owing to the fact that it was sealed or strung together with other leaves by 'piercing' (khazama). (Information from CUDL and Khan.)

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ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī

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T-S AS 183.28 1r

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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).

T-S AS 183.28 1v

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Verso (although Khan refers to it as recto)

  1. ديوان الاشراف
  2. مخزومة
  3. رفعها محمد بن علي وكيل المطبخ ودار العسل بمعصرة فلفاخ(؟)
  4. لعصر اقصاب سنة تسعين واربعماية الخراجية المعتصرة في
  5. شهو[ر] سنة احدا وتسعين واربعماية الخراجية لمدة اولها يوم
  6. الاثنين السادس والعشرين من برموده واخرها يوم السبت اول بشنس من السنة المذكورة
  7. [شهدت] على ما ضمنته هذه المخزومة و......[        ] .....ومبلغه
  8. [    ا]لمبالغ المذكورة من ابلوجه وكتب علي بن الحسن بن علي في رجب سنة خمس وتسعين واربعماية

Verso

  1. Dīwān al-ʾIshrāf (Office of supervision)
  2. Makhzūma
  3. submitted by Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, the representative of the (sugar) factory and the house of honey at the press of....
  4. for pressing sugar cane, in the kharājī year four hundred and ninety, what is pressed in
  5. the months of the kharājī year four-hundred and ninety-one for the period beginning on
  6. Monday, the twenty-sixth of Barmūdā, and ending on Saturday, the first of Bashans of the aforementioned year.
  7. I testified to what this makhzūma contains and what ...[      ]... and its amount,
  8. [    ] the aforementioned amounts of its fine sugar. Written by ʿAlī b, al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī in Rajab of the year four hundred and ninety-five
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