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Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Recto: testimony regarding the execution of an order by the amir Qarāqūš Bahāʾ al-Dīn b. ʿAbdallāh al-Asadī. The order concerns the recovery of a cache of gold coins (170 dinars) in possession of Ḡānim b. ʿĪsā, one of the inhabitants of Upper Manūf, and was carried out by the special commissioner of the amir, Fāris al-Dawla ʿAdī. The coins were placed in a purse and put under a wax seal and handed over to the commissioner. This operation is witnessed by ʿAmmār b. al-Ḥasan b. Ismaʿīl b. ʿAlī and Abū l-Maʿālī Yūsuf b. Muḥammad. Dated 595 AH (= 1199 CE). Verso: list of names.</p>

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