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Official report to an amīr who is addressed with many titles (al-muʾayyad al-manṣūr al-amīr Shihāb al-Dīn ʿumdat al-dawla etc.). The sender reports that he arrived …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Official letter of correspondence or report, in Arabic script. The letter begins with a basmala and ṣalwala (blessings on the prophet) followed by a taqbīl …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صلى الله سيدنا محمد وسلم تسليما
[المملوك] يقبل الارض وينهي بعد وصف ما هو عليه من الاشتياق
]..الى كريم مامنه ورؤية طلعته …
1 نسخ
Mamluk or early Ottoman petition. NB: The IIIF image associated with this fragment is entirely in Hebrew script, so this description must belong with a …
Some sort of receipt. Needs examination.
Fiscal account, fragment from a bifolio. Items include names (Yūsuf [...], Faḍāʾil [...]) and quantities of dinars expressed in words.
Verso: Official letter. Approximately 14 lines are preserved. Dating: No earlier than 1021 CE, since al-Ḥākim was dead at the time of writing. Possibly dating …
Two petitions to a Fatimid judge. The first concerns the incarceration of the family breadwinner, a certain Ḥabīb. An endorsement fixed to the end of …
العبيد المماليك
عاىلة حبيب الجارى
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
مماليك الحضرة السامية الاجلية الشيخية اطال الله بقاها وادام ت…
The servants and slaves,
the family of Ḥabīb, the servant
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slaves of the lofty a…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
State document, fragment, one isolated line in Arabic script. "والذي ينهيه عبد مولانا امير المؤمنين". Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ, the prayer for rain …
State document, in Arabic script. Damaged/faded. About 8 lines are preserved. The document is probably a Fatimid petition requesting a rescript, "khurūj al-tawqīʿ" and mentions …
Bottom part of a (tax?) receipt.
State document in Arabic script. Petition or report? Fragments of 6 lines are preserved, wide space between them. Refers to al-Shaykh al-Muʾayyad fī l-Dīn (maybe …
Document in Arabic script. Dated, but the date is difficult to read. List of crops (qamḥ, shaʿīr, fūl, others) and quantities. Headed with a paragraph …
First line of an official letter. Begins, "The noble letter/document (al-kitāb al-mukarram) [reached] the slave of your excellence...." On verso there is a different Arabic-script …
Recto: Petition draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-[ʿIzz al-Yahūdī] kisses the ground before al-maqām al-ʿālī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-sayfī al-ʿādilī, and reports that he …
Brief official letter in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The addressee is to give the bearer Yūsuf and ʿInān(?) 100 silver pieces "for Minyat …
State document, a petition regarding an iqṭāʿ and the relocation of peasants. The petitioner talks about an iqṭāʿ assigned to him in a ḍayaʿa (the …
العبد يقبل الارض اما]م المقام الشريف(؟) ضاعف الله انواره و[اعلى
مناره وينهي الى . . . . . . . . . . . // . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \\ من اعما…
Accounts of some kind in Arabic script. Possibly official. The format resembles that of the Ikhshīdid fiscal documents. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ in …
Two different letters in Arabic script, one on recto and on verso. The one on verso may be a petition. Needs examination for content.
A pair of conjoined (either glued together or never separated in the first place) tax receipts related to a tax farm (ḍamān). Dated: 25 Jumādā …
One line of a document in Arabic script, likely state related. Reused for a literary text in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Talmudic rabbis.
Small fragment of a state document or letter in Arabic script. Mentions the Mutawallī al-Ṭirāz. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto: Small fragment from official correspondence. The ends of three lines are preserved. Refers to a "matter" (qaḍiyya) twice and maybe a problem (mushkila). Verso: …
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Recto: Official letter mentioning the kharāj and agriculture. Also mentions khafāra and a Coptic name Yāfus. Dating: before September 1013. On verso there is a …
Fol. 1, verso: Small fragment of official-looking correspondence in Arabic script.
Official report. Fragment (left side). The sender reports that he arrived in a certain location at the end of Ṭūba (early February). He reports concerning …
Petition in Arabic script. The sender's name may appear between lines 2 and 3 (ʿabduhu Khalaf....?). May mention Qalyūb (l. 3) and mentions merchandise and …
Minute fragment with a few Arabic words preserved on each side, either from a legal or official document. AA
Possibly a fragment of a petition, or a legal document (mentions ṣaḥīḥ sharʿī in l. 2). The beginnings of 11 lines are preserved. Mentions the …
Document in Arabic script in a chancery hand. Most likely a report based on the phrase "mā juddida dhikruhu". Portions of five lines are preserved …
State document, in Arabic script. Either the beginning of a petition (a basmala then al-ʿabd al-mamlūk yu[qabbil]) with massive line spacing, or simply a draft …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script.
Verso (original use): Undeciphered document in Arabic script, likely state-related. Appears to be dated 427 AH = 1035/36 CE, which is consistent with the Hebrew …
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a state document. There is a single line, subsequently reused for a Judaeo-Arabic composition.
Tax receipt. Beginning "tadhkira bism..." For Ibrāhīm b. Menashshe. For his capitation tax payment in Fustat. Receipts sharing the same administrative note/hand at upper left …
Petition? In Arabic script. Small fragment. The phrase "ilā khidmatihī" is legible in the first line.
Fragment from the bottom of a petition. With a raʾy clause (...al-raʾy al-sāmī fīhi lā zāla ʿāliyan...). Dated Jumādā I 5[.]7 H, corresponding to 1113–1171 …
Recto: Unidentified state document in Arabic script. A scribe-in-training has practiced copying the text in between the lines. A few lines from the bottom it …
Verso (original use): Fragment (lower left corner) of a petition or other state correspondence in Arabic script. Ends with ṣalwala and ḥasbala. Needs examination.
Official report in Arabic script. Small fragment. Mentions the caliph (… ين الله), probably al-Ẓāhir (li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh), al-Ḥāfiẓ (li-Dīn Allāh), or al-ʿĀḍid (li-Dīn Allāh). …
State document, in Arabic script. May be a petition. The only phrase preserved is al-mamlūk muqaddam al-juyūsh (commander in chief).
المملوك مقدم الجيوش
Recto: An account related to the production of cane sugar. A ḍarība seems to be an amount of cuttings you have to plant, and each …
Petition from an Alexandrian coppersmith. Dating: Fatimid-era based on structure and paleography but could be Ayyubid. The titles of the addressee match that of an …
1 مناقشة
Response to a letter of complaint concerning taxation of the Jews of Tiberias. The letter refers to a sijill mukarram (noble decree) of the caliph …
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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Two very fragmentary lines of a state document, in Arabic script with wide line spacing and large script. A huge margin has been left to …
IB VI, 35. Fatimid petition to al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from India …
العبد المملوك
موسى بن صدقة التاجر اليهودي
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا
وسيد…
Mūsā ibn Ṣadaqa, the Jewish merchant.
The benedictions of God a…
4 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Bottom two lines of an Arabic document. Might be a state document. The last line is a ḥamdala and ṣalwala, then "Allāhu ḥasbī wa-tawakkaltu ʿalayhi." …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. The ends of three lines are preserved. May be from a state report. Needs examination.
Receipt, but needs identification for typology. Contains a basmala, and an ʿalāma (الحمد لله حمدا يرضيه). Mentions "al-dīwān" and beginning of a date "bi-tārikh al-khāmis.......arbaʿ …