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Two fiscal documents, in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 12th C. Recto is headed "al-muqīmīn" and mentions "al-mustakhraj" in the third line, probably related to tax …
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Ayyubid state document. Bifolio, possibly from a fiscal accounting ledger. Dated: Shawwāl 622 AH, which is October/November 1225 CE (if read correctly). Mentions al-Malik al-Kāmil …
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Bū l-Ḥasan b. [...] the Jewish silk trader for the year 525 AH.
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 …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Hand/layout looks fiscal. Needs examination.
Recto: State document. Accounts regarding agrarian administration submitted by Boqṭor b. Sisinne, a Copt, the overseer (al-khawlī) in Badsā (in the province of al-Giza), for …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Petition from a group of people. In Arabic script. Dating: Likely Ayyubid or Mamluk-era based on the handwriting, layout, and some of the vocabulary. The …
1 نسخ
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
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا
وسيد…
Mūsā ibn Ṣadaqa, the Jewish merchant.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The benedictions of God a…
4 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Fiscal accounting. Seems to regard a construction project for a government building (Dār al-Malik and maybe al-ḥujra al-saʿīda are mentioned on recto) and quantities of …
Petition or report or draft of one, in Arabic script. Strings of titles. There are alternating lines of light ink (bigger letters) and dark ink …
State document, extremely fragmented, only a few words readable. Mentions the amir Asad al-Dawla.
Small fragment of official correspondence, reused for literary text in Hebrew script. Only a few words preserved.
State document, extremely fragmentary. The name of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir is written "al-Mustanṣir Billah Amīr al-Muʾminīn."
Could probably be part of a decree. Fragmentary date preserved.
State document, bottom fragment, in Arabic script. "الذي لا يقدر فيهم على غيره... ومحاسبته على استقبال سنة خمسـ[...على ما استخرجه واحضر ما". The phrase "wa-muḥāsabatuhu …
Official correspondence having to do with provincial administration, mentioning farmers and their complaints and various amirs and "the ʿāmil" and "the qāʾid." Approximately a dozen …
Official-looking or commercial receipt (ṣaḥḥa...). Or maybe commercial. Resembles T-S AS 179.142. Needs examination.
Part of an official letter or petition, addressed to a caliph based on the raʾy clause and caliphal blessings: "ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه علو [الراي]". …
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 …
Verso: Small fragment from the bottom of a petition or other state document, preserving the raʾy clause and the ṣalwala.
Small, official-looking receipt. A notation in Judaeo-Arabic on verso reads "shahr ramaḍān."
Mamlūk-era report or petition seeking charity "ṣadaqāt al-ʿamīma". Begins with a taqbīl. Needs examination.
Recto: Petition. The endings of 5 lines are preserved, with a raʾy clause at the bottom. The nature of the request is unclear, but requests …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 24 Ramaḍān 405. Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd …
Document in Arabic, unclear content, left half only, with sewing holes at left, top, and diagonally across the upper left corner. Likely an official document. …
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. Very faded. Fragments of ~5 lines are preserved, with wide space between the lines. Verso: Letter/report in Arabic script, …
Petition in Arabic script to "the master of the viziers" (sayyid al-wuzarāʾ). The sender swears by Muḥammad and his family but is himself a Jew …
Fiscal accounting document, probably. Large and well preserved. Needs examination. Alt description: Fragment, recto, and verso both contain what look like pen trials (some repetitions, …
Fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely a petition addressed to al-Amīr al-Muwaffaq al-Manṣūr Ḥusām al-Mulk Muʾayyad [al-Da]wla. Mentions "...these farms from the inside …
Fol. 2v, right page, 90 degrees: Fiscal document. Confirming the disbursement of funds related to the "lofty rescripts" in a certain year (504 AH?): واطلق …
State accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions, "waṣal ilā bayt[". Then mentions a month, "min shahr..".
Tax receipt for the capitation of Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadaqa in Fustat for the year 526 AH. Amount: ½ dīnār (the lowest rate). Jahbadh: Hibat Allāh. …
Closing of a state document containing words of gratitude, ḥamdala, ṣalwala, and ḥasbala. "fa-ūqābil bi-l-shukr ʿalayhi inshāʾ Allāh".
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb on dyeing in Dhāt al-Ṣafā. Dated: 21 Ramaḍān 405. Written by Yuḥannā b. Mīkhāʾīl, the son of …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Verso: Small fragment of a decree, probably. Only a few letters are preserved.
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, …
Small fragment of an official-looking letter in Arabic script. On recto there is liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information in part from CUDL)
Kharāj receipt. T-S AS 183.155 and T-S AS 183.156 are related (same payer). His name looks like Māḍī b. Fakhr الحىىي but this is tentative. …
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[
Both recto and verso appear to be receipts for the capitation tax in Fustat and Cairo for the year 630 AH = 1232/33 CE. Recto …
Petition/letter of appeal for assistance likely addressed to 'the overseer' (al-mushārif, l. 1). The sender refers to this document as "this khidma." The sender is …
Petition addressed to a Jewish dignitary. Dating unknown. The document is mainly in Arabic script but interspersed with biblical quotations and phrases in Hebrew. The …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū Sahl b. Khalaf in Fustat for the year 530 AH = 1135/36 CE.
State receipt. Landscape layout. Begins "aʿṭā..." The payer is Mūsā b. Futūḥ, and it is for his capitation tax in Alexandria. Same cluster: T-S AS …
Fragment from the top of a Judaeo-Arabic copy of a decree (manshūr) of the caliph al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, it seems his appointment of a certain …
Recto: Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The word "al-ijtihād" is legible, but not much else.
Small fragment of a fiscal account, probably.
Likely fiscal accounts, in very small writing. E.g. "min māl. . . al-aʿmāl..." and "wuṣūl... dīnārayn..." Underneath there may be a date (560 AH?). It …
State report? Three lines preserved, wide space between them: واحضار . . . ال . . . من جزيرة بني [عمـ؟]ـر فالذي اعتمده في ذلك(؟) …
Draft of a petition, possibly. In Arabic script. Addressed to al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-mawlawī and the petitionee is also addressed as "ʿumdat l-mulūk wa l-salāṭīn". …