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Cairo Genizah : Legal document; letter

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: the ware-house keeper has paid the sum of two and a half (dirhams?) on behalf of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb 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 al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Bahār, and the accountant Abū l-Sarī Theodor b. Yuḥannis. Dated 10th Ṣafar 404 AH (= August 1013 CE). Verso: beginning of an Arabic letter to a judge.</p>

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