Scholarship on State document: T-S Ar.40.13

State document T-S Ar.40.13
  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. 23
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  2. Bibliographic citation
    Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
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    • doc. 155
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T-S Ar.40.13 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          يثبت بديوان العمل
  2. ان شا الله                                        ان شا الله
  3. اثبتو المبلغ ثلث وثمن                         اثبتو المبلغ ثلث وثمن
  4. والحمد لله حمد الشاكرين                    والحمد لله على نعمه
  5. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
  6. صح لابو الحسن بن وهب من ضمانه للضيع بمدينة الفيوم لسنة أربع واربعمائة
  7. بمشارفة القاضى السعيد الرشيد ثقة الملك مكين الدولة وامينها
  8. صنيعة امير المومنين ابى الحسن على بن بهار وعمالة ابو السرى
  9. ثيدر بن يحنس
  10. النصف من ذلك سدس ونصف ثمن            مبلغه ثلث وثمن
  11. وكتب ميخائيل بن عبد المسيح الجهبذ صح الثامن من ربيع الاخر
  12. سنة اربع واربعمائة
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Recto

Registration mark on right

  1. Let it be registered on behalf of the office of supervision,
  2. if God wills. 
  3. They have registered the amount of a third and an eighth. 
  4. Praise be to God, with the praise of those who give thanks.

Registration mark on left

  1. Let it be registered in the office of accounts,
  2. if God wills. 
  3. They have registered the amount of a third and an eighth. 
  4. Praise be to God for his bounties. 
  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 for the year four-hundred and four, 
  7. under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly-guided judge, Ṯiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-ʾAmīnuhā,
  8. the protégé of the commander of the faithful, ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Bahār, with ʾAbū al-Sarī 
  9. Theodor ibn Yuḥannis acting as accountant. 
  10. Half of this: A sixth and a sixteenth. Its amount: A third and an eighth.
  11. Written by Mīḵā'īl ibn ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier. Valid. The eighth of Rabīʿ II
  12. in the year four-hundred and four. 
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