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Fragment of a state document in Arabic script. ENA 2846.1 (PGPID 40432) and ENA 2846.2 (PGPID 40433) likely join; it is unclear if they are …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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 …
1 نسخ
Official receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Dated: 556 AH (or kharājī?); if AH, this would correspond to 1160/61 CE. For Bū l-Ḥasan b. …
Fragment of an official letter (report or petition?). In Arabic script. The ends of two lines are preserved. Phrases include: lil-khidma bi-l-thaghr... bi-ḍawāḥīh... Reused on …
State document, in Arabic script. Eleven fragmentary lines, probably addressed to a higher official from a lower official. The official bears the title Ḥamīd al-Dawla. …
Official letter/report in Arabic script. 6 lines preserved from near the beginning. (There are also a few lines legible as mirror-image imprints only, including the …
State document, in Arabic script. Regarding proceedings in the Office of Inspection in the province of al-Fayyūm. Abū Fatḥ Allāh Shawār b. Yūsuf, the chief …
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
حضر الى ديوان الاشراف بالاعمال
الفيومية ابي فتح اللـه سوار بن يوسف
الناىب عن البيادير المستوفي في خزانة\خزان
…
Two different letters in Arabic script, one on recto and on verso. The one on verso may be a petition. Needs examination for content.
Document in Arabic script, maybe an official/fiscal account. "... bi-mablagh al-mustakhraj wa-l-maṣrūf...." Needs examination.
Original use: One line probably from a state document (decree?): ليجري على عادته من ذلك بالطريق ال . . . .
Official state correspondence, beginning of two wide lines, chancery hand "al-ʿabd al-mamlūk". List or table on verso, requires examination.
Original use: A few words from a decree: في ديواني الخاصة والخاص وينبغي ان.
في ديواني الخاصة والخاص وينبغي ان
State document, in Arabic script. Addressed to a wazīr ("mawlāy al-wazīr"). The document was pruned and stuck at the bottom. Reused for a piyyut on …
Minute fragment from an official-looking document. On verso mentions [...] al-yahūdī al-Afḍalī(?) and on recto mentioned four irdabbs of grain.
Petition to a Fatimid caliph, end only, with long lower margin enabling it to be reused as a biofolio transverse to the original text. Contains …
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Recto: State document. Report to al-Ẓāhir about a tax farmer, beginning only. Dating: 1021–36 CE. (Cited in Khan, BSOAS 53 (1990) 25; Arabic Legal and …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
[صلوات الله بركاته ونوامي زكواته وافصل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا وسيدنا]
الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله [امير المومنين …
Verso (original use): state document, beginning of an ʿalāma starting with a ḥamdala, possibly part of a decree. Later reused for a note in Judaeo-Arabic.
A ḥamdala and ṣalwala written in a chancery hand, presumably once part of a larger document. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions a price, 90 pieces of gold, and "what we have observed is rightful". Reused on recto for Hebrew …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in the hand of a prolific scribe. Join: Shulamit Elizur.
Official letter, six fragmentary lines in Arabic, recycled by ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen of Jerusalem (d. ca. 1055) for a Piyyuṭ which dates the state …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition addressed to the Fatimid caliph based on the beginning invocations and blessings. The name of the petitioner is Ṣandal …
Letter from the amīr Kanz al-Dawla, probably in Aswān, to al-Bazīl, the deputy (nāʾib) of the eparch Abū l-Khayr Darmā, in Qalʿat Ibrīm. The sender …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Possibly a tax receipt or an order of payment. Two endorsements, end of Dhū l-Qaʿda of the year 403 (?) 6x8 cm, verso blank. Item …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Yūsuf b. Bū l-Ḥasan the Jew in New Cairo.
Fiscal document. Mentions a payment of 9 wariq dirhams a day for the month Ramaḍān al-muʿaẓẓam, for a total of 270 dirhams. Reused on recto …
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 …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Musāfir b. Yūsuf in Fustat for the year 509. Dated: 2 (or 6?) Dhū l-Ḥijja 509 AH = April …
Recto: Letter or petition addressed to someone with many honorifics: al-muwaffaqiyya al-manṣūra al-ḥāmiya al-muʾayyadiyya.... Might mention the palace (al-qaṣr). The name of the sender may …
Petition, late Fatimid period given the blessings on a vizier, from a certain Ibn Mūsā (no forename given) concerning a Jew named (2) Bū l-Faraj …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Official correspondence, probably. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Difficult to make out much of the content Mentions "al-Dawla" (likely part of someone's laqab) …
State-issued order of payment from the Treasury of Silk Looms in Alexandria. Date: 14 Jumāda II 1237 AH (1820 CE). A total of 150 kuruş …
Probably a fiscal account.
Official letter, in Arabic script. Probably an internal correspondence. Reports on a place or an occurrence "was l-mulāḥaẓa". The beginnings of 7 lines are preserved. …
Beginning of a petition beginning "mamlūk al-ḥaḍra. . . ." This seems to be pasted on to a bifolio of Hebrew piyyuṭ in a rudimentary …
State-issued receipt, in Arabic script, late. Receipt of payment of Dawūd al-Yahūdī for the administrative section of Qalyūbiyya (al-Qism al-Awwal Qalyūbiyya).
Official receipt of some kind. For Bū Saʿīd b. Ibrāhīm. Very busy. Quite faded, too. There is the remnant of an earlier document on verso. …
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 …
State document: internal memorandum. Mentions the proceeds to dīwān al-Farjī and the state official Jalīl al-Dawla. Join: Marina Rustow. T-S Ar.31.58 is dated 507. Possibly …
To our lord, the blessings of God be upon him, belongs the lofty resolution concerning that, if God wills.
Praise be to God alone, God bless our …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 26 Shawwāl 403. Measurements: 8.5 × 8.6 cm.
Mamlūk-era fiscal document. Perhaps a makhzūma. Mentions a dīwān in the first line. An archival note with an ʿalāma "alḥamdu li-llah rabb al-ʿālamīn" on verso. …
State document, in Arabic script. Ayyubid-era, probably addressed to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil.
خرجت الاوامر المطاعة بعملها من المتاخرين
ورجال الاوامر الخـ[ـدمـ]ـة(؟) فقد(؟) عملت(؟)
الى الباب العالي المولوي الملكي العادلي
خلد الله سلطان…
State correspondence, probably from a lower state official to a higher subordinate because a rescript (tawqīʿ) is mentioned in the last line, but it could …
Receipt for the capitation tax for Khalaf b. Yaʿqūb in Fustat. Dated: Looks like 551 AH, which would be 1156/57 CE if correct. See ENA …
Large account in Arabic script, likely fiscal given the handwriting and the wasteful layout. One of the entries mentions Ḥāmid b. Ḥamīd. Needs examination.
Recto: receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office …
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Verso: State document, two lines preserved and one partial line above. Due to water damage or perhaps long-term pressure and ink transfer, the document bears …
Tax receipt in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ for the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Reused on verso for …
Government receipt attesting to payment of the government tax on the sale of an enslaved woman. Seller: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yaʿqūb al-Yahūdī. Buyer: Sumra bt. …
Tax receipt for someone's payment of the capitation tax in Fustat. Dated: looks like 557 AH = 1161/62 CE.