Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Restrictions note

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Summary note

Mawlani (Abu?) Muhammad Abd Allah ibn 'Askan. The letter concerns arrears of the agricultural tax (kharaj). The title used for the person indicates that he is the "client" of someone important. The name itself is not distinctive except for the patronymic "Son of Soldier"

Notes

• 1 line upside down, written above the bismillahi + some writing in the right margin.
• Provenance unknown, VI-VII A.H./XII-XIII A.D
• Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift of Robert Garrett, Class of 1897.

Publications about

Unpublished.

Other title(s)

Princeton Papyri Collections (C0401): GD 7970 A verso

OCLC

1340185557

Other standard number

• GD 7970 A verso

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