Copper Plates (Cochin)

It happened that we, the witnesses who have signed below, on Sunday, 18th of Marḥeshvan, of the year 1318 of the Era of Documents [1006 CE], entered the home of Matsliaḥ the elder, son of al-Ḥasan…

[We, the undersigned witnesses, observed the following incident on such-and-such a day, in the month of such-and-such, in the year such-and-such, when we went to visit the lady So-and-so and found her…

[Verso:] A marriage contract for betrothal [Recto:] On the first day of the week, which is the eleventh day of the month Tamuz, year four thousand, seven hundred and sixty-seven A.M., which is year…

What happened before us, we, the witnesses who have signed below, on Thursday the 20th of the month of Iyyar of the year four thousand and s[even hundred and six]ty and eight of the Creation of the…

In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Aḥmad b. Abī Ṭalḥa [and] Abī Naṣr b. Mahdī acknowledged in their sound body and mind, voluntarily, , as follows: “I and Abī…

We attest to the following: So-and-so, son of Mr. So-and-so, said to us: Be my witnesses for an acquisition. Write the document, sign it, and give it to Mr. So-and-so. For I have acquiesced of my own…