Cairo Genizah : Legal document

Yūḥannā b. Mīḵāʾīl

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>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).</p>