Legal document: T-S AS 177.591
Legal document T-S AS 177.591Tags
Description
Draft of the beginning of an Arabic letter to a judge. See separate entry for verso. (Information from CUDL)
Translation: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S AS 177.591 1r
Transcription
Translation
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).Registration mark on right
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Let it be registered on behalf of the office of supervision,
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if God wills.
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They have registered the amount of two, a third and an eighth.
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Praise be to God for his bounties.
Registration mark on left
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Let it be registered in [the office of accounts],
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if God wills.
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They have registered the amount of two, a third and an eighth.
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Praise be to God, with the praise of those who give thanks.
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In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
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A valid receipt has been granted to Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Wahb for the sum owedthrough his standing surety for the estates in the town of al-Fayyūm
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for the year four-hundred and five, under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly-guided judge, Thiqat al-Mulk
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Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, the protégé of the commander of the faithful, Abūal-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Bahār, and in the presence of
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the trusted judge Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā ibn Bahār, his deputy, with
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the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ ibn Qūrīl acting as accountant.
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Half of this: One, a sixth and a sixteenth. Its amount: Two, a third and an eighth.
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Written by Mīkhāʾīl ibn ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier. Valid. The third of Shawwāl,
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in the year four-hundred and five.
T-S AS 177.591 1v
