A hujjah from 1759

This hujjah is reproduced in Richard Berenger’s 1771 The History and Art of Horsemanship pp. 116f., and was provided to him by Hugh Percy, the 1st Duke of Northumberland. The last day of Safar 1173 hijri is 21 October 1759. The following is tranſlated from an original Arabian certificate, by the learned and ingenious Mr. Channing, eminent for his ſkill in the oriental tongues, and communicated to the author by his Grace Hugh Duke of Northumberland. The ſhort account of his pedigree, and cauſe of ſale, are theſe. I, the Fakir Mohammed, ſon of the Hadg Chalil, ſon of Sheich Suleiman, Sheich of the village of Alchadar, adjoining to the back of mount Sihangan, have now ſold my bay mottled horse Bik, a thorough Arabian, ſon of the bay mare Alkahila, got by Nif, of Gialf, a bay with black eyelids, a noble Arabian. The mother of the horſe (Nif) was the mare Huſſein Ali Beg. He has the full powers of generation. I, the Fakir, who ſtand in need of the mercy of the most high God, to whom be praiſe, Mohammed, ſon of Hadg Chalil, fon of Sheich Suleiman, even I have now ſold my before-mentioned horse, who…