Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 17 [AR 3]
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DOC 17 [AR 3]
Khalili Collection
Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Arabic (Arabic script)
Administrative
Administrative: Receipt

Physical Description

parchment
fold lines
Written on parchment, the writing surface shows fold lines.
10.5
10.5
Recto: 11 lines

Content

Tax quittance for Mīr b. Bēk.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: January 765 (0765-01)
  • The Hijri calendar: Dhū al-Qaʿda 147 (0147-11)

People

  • Mīr b. Bēk
  • al-Ḥasan b. Warazān
  • Yūsuf b. ʿAbdallāh
  • Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā

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: 94-95)
    Catalogue Number: 2
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

Related Shelfmarks

IEDC Data

43
02/12/2023
08/08/2024

Citations

Geoffrey Khan
Thomas Benfry
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Folios
1. recto
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Transcription
Translation
Transcription
Folio:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1
هذا كتاب من يوسف بن عبد الله و 2
الحسن بن ورزان عاملى الامير ابرهيم 3
بن يحيى اعز الله نصره على مدر ورزم بر 4
اة لمير بن بك انا قبضنا منك 5
مما صار عليك من خراج سنة 6
ست واربعين ومية 7
عشرة دراهم قبضنها منك 8
وبرئت الينا منها 9
وكتب لغرة ذو القعدة سنة 10
سبع واربعين ومية 11
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is a document from Yūsuf b. ʿAbdallāh and
3 al-Ḥasan b. Warazān, the two financial administrators of the governor Ibrāhīm
4 b. Yaḥyā, may God strengthen his victory, (whose jurisdiction is) over Madr and Rizm,
5 a quittance for Mīr b. Bēk. We have received from you
6 what you owe with regard to kharāj of the year
7 one hundred and forty six
8 ten dirhams. We received them from you
9 and you have become released from (the obligation to pay) it to us.
10 It has been written at the beginning of Dhū al-Qaʿda, in the year
11 one hundred and forty seven.
Seals
Seal 1
Photograph of this seal
Five-pointed star

The seal on the bulla is a five-pointed star surrounded by four crescents, one in each corner.

  • star
  • brown
  • symbols
Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 17 [AR 3]: Folio (recto)
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