Scholarship on State document: T-S AS 177.591
State document T-S AS 177.591- 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. 49
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- Bibliographic citation
- Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
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- doc. 159
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Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S AS 177.591 1v
Verso, top right (registration mark)
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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.
Verso, top left (registration mark)
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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.
Verso
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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 1r
