Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 13 [AR 15]
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DOC 13 [AR 15]
Khalili Collection
Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Arabic (Arabic script)
Administrative
Administrative: Tax receipts

Physical Description

parchment
fold lines
Written on light coloured parchment, the writing surface shows fold lines.
10.0
7.0

Content

Tax quittance for Bāb b. Bēk.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: February-March 769 (Estimated date range: 0769-02-17-0769-03-17)
  • The Hijri calendar: Ṣafar 152 (0152-02)

People

  • Bāb b. Bēk
  • ʿAmr b. Marzūq
  • Jarīr b. Māhān

Publications

  • Khan, Geoffrey. 2007. Arabic documents from early Islamic Khurasan (Studies in the Khalili Collection Volume V). London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions. (Pages: 116-7)
    Catalogue Number: 13
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

32
02/12/2023
08/08/2024

Citations

Geoffrey Khan
Thomas Benfry
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Folios
1. recto
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Translation
Transcription
Folio:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1
هذا كتاب من عمرو بن مرزوق 2
عامل الامير جرير بن ماهان على مدر ورزم اكرمه الله 3
براة لباب بن بيك انك 4
اديت الى مما صار عليك من خراج سنة تسع 5
واربعين ومية وخراج سنة خمسين ومية 6
والقسم التى تجرى معهما ثمنية عشر درهما 7
ودانقين ونصف قبضت ذلك منك وبرئت 8
الى منها وكتب فى صفر سنة اثنين وخمسين ومية 9
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is a document from ʿAmr b. Marzūq,
3 the financial administrator of the governor Jarīr b. Māhān, (whose jurisdiction is over Madr and Rizm, may God grant him honour,
4 a quittance for Bāb b. Bēk. You
5 have delivered to me what you owe with regard to the kharāj for the year
6 one hundred and forty-nine and the kharāj for the year one hundred and fifty,
7 and the portions that are administered with them, eighteen dirhams
8 and two dānaqs and a half. I have received that from you and you have been released
9 from (the obligation to pay) them to me. It has been written in Sṭafar of the year one hundred and fifty-two.
Seals
Seal 1
Photograph of this seal
Inscription

The impression on the seal is obliterated.

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Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 13 [AR 15]: Folio (recto)
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