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Report or petition. In Arabic script. In a chancery hand, wide space between the lines. Two lines are preserved, it seems praising the grace and …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Official-looking account in Arabic script. Mentions al-shaykh Abū Saʿd (the Tustari?) after the basmala. Needs examination.
Petition from Abū l-Ḥasan b. Dāwūd to a Fatimid dignitary. The petitioner is a poor young man, whose father died destitute and left him only …
His servant and slave,
Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Dāʾūd
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the lofty, mighty, much-sought…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Lower fragment, recto (original use): Petition, probably. In Arabic script, with gigantic space between the lines. Portions of the last few lines are preserved. Mentions …
1 نسخ
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Mentions Qāḍī l-Quḍāt and the sender complains of his poverty. Reused on recto for a vidduy in Hebrew.
Official receipt of some sort. Needs examination.
Bifolio (subsequently folded into thirds) of an eclectic selection of incomplete state-related documents. Fiscal accounting, and an entry concerning a claim made from al-Ṣināʿa al-Maḥrūsa …
يتم(؟) كتاب(؟) الغلات
بجزيرة بني نصر والبحيرة
مما تسلمه مبارك
وغطريف من جملة المستخدمين
بالزكات السامي
عشر ويبات
بفضل …
Two lines in Arabic script, possibly from a fiscal document. The second word may be dīnār." This is followed by the date 14 Jumādā II …
State document(s). The main text on recto includes a name (Muḥammad... ʿAbdallāh...) and many fancy titles (sulṭān... al-imām... sanāʾ al-mulk.. fakhr... naṣr al-mamlaka... al-faḍāʾil sayyid...). …
Fiscal document. Needs examination.
Recto: Fiscal document, in Arabic script, headed with a basmala and beginning in a petition format. Followed by many lines of sums of money, written …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Probably state-related. Verso: Headed by the basmala, followed by an elongated "ʿaml," followed by "the petition (? ruqʿa) of Fuḍayl …
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[.](?).
Fiscal document mentioning an official titled Wajīh al-Dawla. Reused for an account (see separate entry).
Official correspondence in Arabic script, addressed to a superior. Dating: Mamluk period, based on the migration of the tarjama to the right margin. The sender's …
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 …
Tax receipt for [...] b. Eliyya, a Jewish silk trader (qazzāz). Needs examination for details.
Petition from Abū Bakr b. ʿAlī to a dignitary whose name is torn off. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan, who may be a kātib. (Information in part …
Petition or report concerning a government official (Mutawallī al-Sayyāra) named Samyūn (سميون), likely a Christian.The document was cut into two or more pieces and rearranged …
State document, fragment of a petition. Contains the "shadd" formula.
End of an official document (letter? petition?). Likely a date in the penultimate line: 4[..] AH.
Contract of lease for an irrigation channel on the jazīra of Fustat (the Nile island later known as Rawḍa). Dated: 18 (or maybe 28?) Shawwāl …
Petition to a Fāṭimid vizier concerning an allowance of a jurisconsult, which the petitioner used to receive from the auspicious office, which was to be …
May God make eternal the rule of the lofty and exalted seat, the mighty lord,(commander …
State document, in an elegant hand with wide linespacing. Mentions "ارباع السلطانية لمصر". Reused for Arabic and Hebrew text on recto and verso. Needs examination.
Bottom part of a tax receipt in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 17 Ṣafar 404. Measurements: 4.3 x 8.2 cm. …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Petition from Naṣir b. Bū l-Faraj, who converted to Islam (ihtadā) under (ʿalā yad) Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn(?) (but perhaps different from the actual Saladin?) in the …
Small fragment from the top of an official-looking document, headed by basmala and ṣalwala, then al-mamlūk [...]. Potentially a petition.
Tax receipt for Abū l-Surūr. Trigger: addā.
Petition, or official-looking letter. In Arabic script. Fragments of four lines are preserved. Mentions "the place... the slave has been there for several years... the …
Capitation tax receipt for the Jewish man Sālim b. Bū l-Faḍl for the year 621(?) AH. Landscape format. Needs further examination.
Most probably a Fatimid report, but written in a decree-like format, or could be a decree relating the contents of the report/petition, in Arabic script. …
الجزية الجارية اقطاعه لم يكن عليها
موظف جسور ولا حق ديواني[ مطلوب؟]
اهلها به من مدة سنين وان المستخدمين
الان قد طلبوهم بموظف الجسور وغريما
Recto: Decree, fragment, to two local officials stating that a certain Abū l-Faraj b. Bū l-Waḥsh should be exempted from paying taxes (or from standing …
سلامتهما وحراستهما ونعمتهما
على هذا المثال يعفوا ابو الفرج
بن بو الوحش اليهودي من ضمان
الحانوت ولا يح…
(titulature) Naṣr, may God prolong
their (dual) well-being, protection and benefaction,
about this (case): they have exempted Abū l-Fara…
One line from a decree in Arabic script, apparently appointing a supervisor over something: بكتب هذا السجل لك باستخدامك في مشارفة الم؟؟؟؟. Join: Amir Ashur.
Fragment of an official document in Arabic script, possibly official correspondence or a petition. Mentions 'my master al-Qāḍī al-Saʿīd Ṣafiyy al-Mulk." (Al-Yāzūrī had a son …
Small fragment of official-looking correspondence, likely a petition. Mentions honorifics like "al-karīm al-ʿālī al-makhdūmī."
State or legal document in Arabic script. 6 lines are preserved, with moderately wide space in between. Mentions "wa-khaṭṭ al-shaykh Abū l-Faraj" and "[...] al-madhkūr." …
State document in Arabic script. Looks like a receipt, unclear for what. Possibly Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. May refer to ʿAlam al-Dīn b. Bū l-Majd in …
Petition from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī to Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin). In Arabic script. Has a tarjama at the upper left; 4 lines of introductory blessings; …
1 مناقشة
Fragment of an official report; the ends of 4 lines are preserved. Mentions a city (bi-l-madīna) and to traveling routes (ان الموضع الذي سلك . …
Recto: Ayyubid or Mamluk-era fiscal account. In Arabic script. Extremely neat and well-preserved. Mentions Dār al-Malik al-Muẓaffar and al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ. Needs examination.
State document, probably a decree. In Arabic script, in a chancery hand. Huge letters and wide space between the lines. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic literary …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Very elevated register. Approximately 8 lines are preserved, but few details.
State document(s) concerning taxation. Both the left column of recto and the only column on verso begin "khidma(?) rafaʿahā Ṣadaqa b. Makārim al-jahbadh. . . …
Fiscal (or other?) receipt. Arabic writing, Coptic numbers.
Tax receipt? Extremely faded.
Recto: Jottings in both Arabic script and Hebrew (including אני לדודי וגם דודי לי בחר בי). Verso: Arabic document. Chancery hand, wide line spacing. The …
Verso (original use): Remnants of three words of a state decree in enormous calligraphic Arabic script ("...ī maṣāliḥ al-musli[mīn]" (ى مصالح المسل[امين...). Dating: pre–1108 CE, …
Bifolium from a fiscal account ledger. One of the four pages is headed "makhzūma." Needs examination.
Brief official report in Arabic script. Ends, "anhā dhālika wa-l-raʾy aʿlāhu." Dating: Likely Ayyubid or early Mamluk-era, based on handwriting and format. Needs further examination …
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, …