Acknowledgement of receipt of money by Abu al-Faraj b. Shanuda the Christian seaman, leader of the sailors of "the weavers," from Abu Sa’d Daniyal b. …
Abū al-Faraj ibn Shanūda, the Christian seaman, the leader of the sailors of ‘the weavers',
partners of the Jibrīrī office, acknowledged in the presence of the witnesses of this document and called (them) to be his witnesses, while he was in sound
mind and body, legally capable of conducting his affairs, willing, not coerced, nor forced, nor constrained, this taking place in the town
of Ikhmīm in the last ten days of Jumādā II of the year five-hundred and thirty-four, (he acknowledged) that he had taken and received in full
from Abū Saʿd Dāniyāl ibn Mīnā, the cashier of monies in the province of Ikhmīm, from the review of money received
and administered by him, under the supervision of the auspicious judge, Mukhliṣ al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, Abū ʿAlī
al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥassān, the statement of account being drawn up by the elder Thiqat al-Dawla, Abū Manṣūr Hibatallāh ibn Ḥasan ibn
Hibatallāh, for all the produce carried on his ship from the province of Ikhmīm to the town of Qūṣ, this being for five-hundred irdabbs
[ … ] ..... all that he received formerly for the whole, and the sum passed intohis possession
[ … ] ... in that, with a valid quittance, a quittance of receipt in full,
[ … he] called witnesses on the date (of the document).