Cairo Genizah : Legal document

Mīḵāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>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 two, a third and an eighth (dirham?) 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, of the judge Abū ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā b. Bahār and the elder accountant Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b. Qūrīl. Dated 6th Ramaḍān 405 AH (= February 1015 CE).</p>