State document: T-S AS 177.591

State document T-S AS 177.591

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T-S AS 177.591
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Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 20 Shawwāl 405. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Payment made under the supervision of three officials: (1) the auspicious, rightly guided qāḍī Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Nahār (2) (in) the presence of the fiduciary qāḍī Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Nahār on his behalf, and (3) (under) the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b. Qūrīl. Measurements: 12.5 × 8.1 cm. The verso contains trials of the pen and drafts of various documents, including a petition (see separate entry).

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T-S AS 177.591 1v

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1v
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Verso, top right (registration mark)

  1. Let it be registered on behalf of the office of supervision,

  2. if God wills.

  3. They have registered the amount of two, a third and an eighth.

  4. Praise be to God for his bounties.

Verso, top left (registration mark)

  1. Let it be registered in [the office of accounts],

  2. if God wills.

  3. They have registered the amount of two, a third and an eighth.

  4. Praise be to God, with the praise of those who give thanks.

Verso

  1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.

  2. 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

  3. for the year four-hundred and five, under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly-guided judge, Thiqat al-Mulk

  4. Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, the protégé of the commander of the faithful, Abūal-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Bahār, and in the presence of

  5. the trusted judge Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā ibn Bahār, his deputy, with

  6. the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū al-Faraj  ʿAbd al-Masīḥ ibn Qūrīl acting as accountant.

  7. Half of this: One, a sixth and a sixteenth. Its amount: Two, a third and an eighth.

  8. Written by Mīkhāʾīl ibn ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier. Valid. The third of Shawwāl,

  9. in the year four-hundred and five.

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