Cairo Genizah : Legal document; accounts

Mīḵāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Recto: receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīḵāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of Accounts on behalf of the Office of Supervision: Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb has paid the sum of a third and a twelfth (dirhams?) for the estates in Al-Fayyūm, under the supervision of the judge Ṯiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, of the protégé of the commander of the faithful Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Bahār, and the accountant Abū l-Sarī Theodor b. Yuḥannis. Dated 7th Ṣafar 404 AH (= August 1013 CE). Verso: Arabic accounts (incomplete).</p>