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State document, internal communication, fragment of a few lines. Mentions a dīwān. Reused for a rabbinic text in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic mentioning qumāsh (rubbish).
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Two unrelated Arabic script documents glued together for the sake of reuse. Lower document: State document. Only the first few words are preserved from ~12 …
Fiscal document, or accounts, in Arabic script. Contains a date in the second line. Needs examination.
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Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in the hand of a prolific scribe.
Bottom of an official document in Arabic script (ḥamdala and ṣālwala). Nothing else of the original document is preserved. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Fol. 5: Official-looking report in Arabic. Refers to receiving a petition from a man "whom he (i.e., I) had taken under my protection (iṣṭanaʿahū) and …
Small fragment of an official report or petition in Arabic script (cf. PGPID 29220). Not a lot of the substance is clearly preserved.
1 نسخ
Folio completely covered with willy nilly Arabic text written in a chancery hand, maybe writing exercises copied from other documents, including phrases from petitions (...yujaddid …
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. C, fol.3 - State document, or a draft, in Arabic script. Four ʿalāmas …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
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 …
Verso (probably original use): Account signed at the top by Ḥannā b. Mīkhāʾīl, probably identical with the jahbadh Yūḥannā b. Mīkhāʾil known from numerous other …
Probably fiscal document(s). Needs examination.
Letter or official correspondence, in Arabic script. The preserved text is fragmentary and doesn't directly indicate its a state document but contains elegant line spacing …
Verso: Fragment of a petition in Arabic, Fatimid-era, possibly from a woman (l. 2: وسوالها), or this could just be referring to a preceding mamālīk/ʿabīd, …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Recto: Fragments of two lines of a state document in a chancery hand. The decree concerns the ḍamān of Ṭūr Sīnā. Verso: The page is …
State document, in Arabic script. Five fragmented lines of what seems like a petition or an internal correspondence. Mentions land-tax (bi-kharājihi). Needs examination.
]ـن امر[
وحد كل الحد في بحصـ[
واعلم انه وان ارقد(؟) ان و[
بخراجه والرقبان(؟) الفـ[
والسلم وكتب لا[
State fiscal and administrative text from the Ayyubid period. Dated: 4 Rabīʿ II 595 AH = 3 February 1199 CE. Written in the form of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله حمد الشاكرين
لما ورد امر المولا الطواشي الاسفه سلار الكبير بها الدين قراقوش المنصوري
الافضلی بخط کریم …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God, with the praise of those who give thanks.
When the order of our ma…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter from Khuṭlukh al-Afḍalī to his 'brother.' On recto only the beginnings of ~5 lines including the basmala are preserved; the address …
Letter from an unnamed Fatimid official in Alexandria to Najīb al-Dawla. Dating: second half of the eleventh century. 36 lines preserved, written in an elegant …
State document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary but from what is preserved, it is indicative that the petition is addressed to a caliph due to the …
قيوله ويتلو خدمته مـ[
من الرقعة والتوقيع والجواب على[
في ارجـ[..؟] الثمن عنه على العادة كونه لم يبلغ
الحكم فسبوني عليه وطالع بذلك
امتثالا ل…
Small fragment from an official document, most probably a petition. The second line of the fragment is in a thicker script than the first, and …
Fragment of a report in Arabic script about fiscal matters (fishy accounting?). Mentions the large figure of 1,000 dinars. Needs further examination. On verso there …
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]....[ ]ـصهو واخذ عبده ويعـ…….
].... اخذ كتابه وجده عبده قد قدر لما لم يكاتبه عبده به ولا
]. قدر ما بحتاج اليه اسقف(؟) سعر الف دينار …
Original use: Probably a small fragment of a state document in Arabic script, with one phrase preserved beginning وليعمل بموجبه.
Verso: State document, in Arabic script. Three fragments possibly from a decree, including the word ملكها. May be a draft or writing exercise as a …
Beginning of a Fatimid petition, in Arabic script. Reused for a tax receipt on verso.
State document, in a chancery hand with wide line spacing. Needs examination.
State document, or at least official correspondence, in Arabic script. Mentions "dīwān" at least two times, Jews, and something taken from the peasants "fa-yuqaddam ilā …
Fragment of two lines from a state document, reused for liturgical text for Shabbat with Judaeo-Arabic instructions. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Petition. In Arabic script. From Yaḥyā al-Tājir. The nature of the request is not clear, nor is it clear how much is missing from the …
Verso (original use): Report of the death of a Jewish woman Ḥasana/Ḥusna bt. [...].
Original use: One line probably from a state document (decree?): ليجري على عادته من ذلك بالطريق ال . . . .
Official-looking (tax?) receipts. Needs examination.
Petition, Fatimid period. Written and signed by a stipendiary of the state in his own hand: Aḥmad b. Ḥamza b. Aḥmad al-Umrāʾī (the reading of …
المملوك
احمد بن حمزة بن احمد الامراي (الاعرابي؟)
رقعة ما نسختها
بعد الدعا
المملوك يقبل الارض بالمقام المعظم النبوي ضاعف الله انواره
Verso: Fragmentary document, in a chancery hand. Typical closing formula of a state document "في ذلك ان شاالله". The second line could be a date. …
Recto: Fragment, 11 lines in a chancery(?) hand, difficult to read. Needs examination. Perforated binding. Verso: Mamlukī names in pretty naskhī script on verso. Including …
State document, in Arabic script. Decree of Shīrkūh, the vizier of al-ʿĀḍid, concerning the monks of Mt. Sinai. The caliph grants al-ʿĀḍid privileges to Macarius, …
Capitation tax receipt, Fustat. The payment is 1 dinar. Dated: 601H? Needs examination.
State document. Response to an endorsement on a petition. A multi-handed internal memorandum. Contains endorsements or minutes (or clerks' notes) that haven't yet been deciphered; …
Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon [our lord Muḥammad, his prophet, and save him]
The servant and slave
. . . ibn Fatḥ
The inst…
Fragment of an official letter (upper left piece). In Arabic script. After the basmala one reads :ʾaṭāla llāh baqāhā wa-ʾadāma taʾyīdahā wa-ʿalāhā (l. 2), ʿārafahu …
Fatimid petition. Dating: 422–23/1031–32. Second half of a petition to the caliph al-Ẓāhir requesting the return of a church that had been confiscated by decree …
[جميـ]ـع ما فيها من فضة ونحاس والات خشب
ورخام يساوى ذلك جملة كبيرة فنقضها
وبنا بقبضها دارا فبعضها معصرة وحوانيت
يستغلها جميع ذلك ويحصل…
All the silver, copper, wooden vessels
and marble that are in it. All of this amounts to a large quantity. He broke them down
and with t…
Recto: State document, in Arabic script. Probably late. An internal report of some kind in a very formal tone. The beginning of the document mentions …
Official report, probably, in Arabic script. Mentions people owing debts to each other, and mentions "the fortress" (al-qalʿa) at the bottom of recto. Continues on …
Receipt (for tax?) in Arabic script with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note at the top. The date is given but is difficult to read—46[.](?).
Official receipt for Abū [...] al-ʿAṭṭār for a payment of 5 dirhams (unclear what for). The sum is written in three different places and there …
Tax receipt, Fatimid, issued in Fusṭāṭ in the name of Saʿīd al-Afṣarī. Hint of a date at the bottom (23?).
Verso: Document in Arabic script, possibly a petition or report. Refers to government property (amwāl al-sultān) and contains a request to investigate something (bi-an yakshif …
Verso (original use): Beginning of a petition or letter to an official. Reused on recto for a tax receipt (see separate entry).
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
قد كان عبد الحضرة السامية الاجلية الشيخية الـ…. ـية ثبت اللـه مجدها
واهلك عدوها وضدها … على مشارفتها في يحا[ …