Legal document (T-S Ar.39.26)
Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Yūḥannā b. Mīḵāʾīl on behalf of his father 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 two and a half (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, the judge Ṣafī al-Dawla ʿAbd Al-Majīd b. Ḥasan (agent of the office of inspections) and the elder accountant Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b. Qūrīl. Dated 27th Ṣafar 405 AH (= August 1014 CE).
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- Physical Location: Cambridge University Library
- Classmark: T-S Ar.39.26
- Subject(s): Cairo Genizah
- Author(s): Yūḥannā b. Mīḵāʾīl
- Origin Place: Egypt
- Date of Creation: 1014 CE
- Language(s): Arabic
- Extent: 1 leaf.
- Material: Paper
- Condition: Holes
- Layout: 13 lines (recto; verso is blank)
- Provenance: Donated by Dr Solomon Schechter and his patron Dr Charles Taylor in 1898 as part of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection
- Funding: The digitisation of the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection has been sponsored by the Jewish Manuscript Preservation Society, the Friedberg Genizah Project Inc., and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.
- Author(s) of the Record: CUL
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- Physical Location: Cambridge University Library
- Classmark: T-S Ar.39.26
- Subject(s): Cairo Genizah
- Author(s): Yūḥannā b. Mīḵāʾīl
- Origin Place: Egypt
- Date of Creation: 1014 CE
- Language(s): Arabic
- Extent: 1 leaf.
- Material: Paper
- Condition: Holes
- Layout: 13 lines (recto; verso is blank)
- Provenance: Donated by Dr Solomon Schechter and his patron Dr Charles Taylor in 1898 as part of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection
- Funding: The digitisation of the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection has been sponsored by the Jewish Manuscript Preservation Society, the Friedberg Genizah Project Inc., and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.
- Author(s) of the Record: CUL
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