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State document T-S AS 177.591

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Editor: Khan, Geoffrey

Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)

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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).

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Let it be registered in [the office of accounts],
if God wills.
They have registered the amount of two, a third and an eighth.
Praise be to God, with the praise of those who give thanks.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
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
for the year four-hundred and five, under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly-guided judge, Ṯiqat al-Mulk
Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, the protégé of the commander of the faithful, Abūal-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Bahār, and in the presence of
the trusted judge Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā ibn Bahār, his deputy, with
the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ ibn Qūrīl acting as accountant.
Half of this: One, a sixth and a sixteenth. Its amount: Two, a third and an eighth.
Written by Mīkhāʾīl ibn ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier. Valid. The third of Shawwāl,
in the year four-hundred and five.

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