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Formal letter(s) in Arabic script. Only a few words from the beginning of each line are preserved. There are several distinct text blocks and at …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Verso (original use): Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. The beginnings of two lines are preserved. كانوا فاما . . . الى …
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
Three different documents stuck together. The main one is a report of the death of al-Ḥājj Ṭāhir. After reporting his death the document lists his …
Letter addressed to the chief justice (Qāḍī l-Quḍāt). Only the first 4 lines are preserved.
1 نسخ
Official-looking account in Arabic script.
Decree, or rather record of the issuing of a decree/rescript (tawqīʿ) from the chancery of al-Ḥāfiẓ, as a response to a petition (ruqʿa) sent by …
The exalted rescript, may God increase its efficacy, has been issued,
dated Muḥarram of the…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
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 …
Fragment of an Arabic official document reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on both sides in the hand of a prolific scribe.
Petition from a woman to a high dignitary or perhaps to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil himself (one reigned 1200–18 and another reigned 1238–40) in a rudimentary hand. …
1 مناقشة
Tax receipt? - needs examination.
State document. Specific genre/purpose unclear. Has the glyph at the top. Then "... fī al-Dīwān al-Khāṣṣ lil-Fakhriyya...." The an ʿalāma and perhaps a confirmation of …
State document, likely a report, in Arabic script. The sender seems to be referring to an order of payments and also mentions "al-dīwān" atleast two …
State document, probably. Dated: Rabīʿ II 425 kharājiyya, which is roughly a year or two prior to 1034 CE. Mentions some sums of dinars and …
العز لدين[الله
] سبع بقين من شهر ربيع الاخر
]... … لسنة خمس وعشرين واربع ماىة الخراجية
]. الى سعادة وصواب خدام المظلة
]عن خازنهما …
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...). …
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, …
Official report in Arabic script. Blaming a spy named Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Ḥammāra and one other person for betraying Damietta to the Franks and possibly …
Small, official-looking receipt. For [...] Ibrāhīm al-Quḍāʿī(?).
State document, Fatimid period. Petition to a vizier of Al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh from a baker in Fusṭāṭ concerning a debt that he had incurred with …
The slave
Abū ʿAbdallāh, the baker from Fusṭāṭ.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The benedictions of God and his ble…
Report or petition in Arabic script. Mentioning finding someone suitable for a government job (khidma); Ibn Khalīfa from [...] al-Sharīf and Muʾnis al-Ṣiqillī; how the …
Report or petition in Arabic script. ~7 lines preserved, wide space between the lines. Striking handwriting; the tail of the فی (or perhaps فيه) goes …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, a silk worker (qazzāz) and craftsman (ṣāniʿ). Dated: 537 AH = 1142/43 CE. Same …
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[
Fragment of a petition to a vizier, possibly al-Afḍal. Approximately three lines of the opening praises are preserved. Reused on recto for poetry attributed to …
Report of the death of a Jewish woman named Sitt al-Dār bt. Yaʿqūb on Thursday, 8 Rajab 627 AH = 23 May 1230 CE. The …
Draft of the opening of a petition or official letter. On verso jottings of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
End of an official letter in Arabic script. "...fīmā yaḥtāj ilayh..." then a ḥamdala and ṣalwala. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ probably by the same scribe …
Recto: State document in Arabic script. Ends of 3 lines preserved. Perhaps a petition or report (...bi-l-nāḥiya yatawallā ḥiyāzatahā wa-ḍabṭa ajzāʾahā...). Needs examination.
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 …
Fiscal account, probably a tax receipt, beginning with the waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr, probably a receipt of delivery to the bayt al-māl. Mentions several …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Eliyya b. [...] in New Cairo and Fustat for the year 631 AH = 1233/34 CE.
Original use: State accounts. In Arabic script. Several discrete entries mentioning different Fatimid army leaders (qāʾids). The first is "Turkān Shāh b. al-Amīr Asad al-Dawla …
Report from a Fatimid chancery clerk concerning an iqṭāʿ. The land is a sugarcane plantation (al-qand), mentions dīwān al-qand, or rather dīwān al-saʿīd, and the …
تسلم الـ[
بالناحية المعروفة بمنية سندبسط القديمة(؟)[
لمحمد بن ابرهم الناىب عن ابي الحسين بن حمزة . . مقدم من ابيه
الحصتين الجارية لما للديوا…
Submitted [
From the district of Minyat Sandabasṭ al-Qadīma
By Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm, acting as deputy for Abū al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥamza, […] delivere…
Decree fragment, one line, in Arabic script. "سعد من وحولها".
Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī."
State document, report, in Arabic script. Chancery hand (though not the best), with widened space between the lines, and with white space used to divide …
Numerous fragments of a large stage document with extremely large calligraphic Arabic script, probably a decree. Later cut and reused to create multiple bifolios of …
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Petition. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The petitioner seems to be a female slave (and not just a figurative slave/mamlūka): "wa-tunhī al-mamlūka annahā …
[العبدة المملوكة فلانة بنت فلان من ناحية فلان]
بسم الله الر[ـحمن الرحيم]
تقبل الارض بالمجلس الـ[ـشريف الـسامي الـ ]
وتنهي المملوكة ا…
Verso (original use): Unidentified document in Arabic script. Possibly the bottom of a tax receipt or other state document.
Petition in Arabic script. Fragment (the beginnings of 4 lines from the bottom). Mentions al-Shaykh Ḥamīd and the Jewish m an Khalaf who lives in …
Fatimid state document. Needs examination. Reused for a memorial list (see PGPID 19130).
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 17 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405 (Khan reads 402). Written …
Registration mark on left
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
State document, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. A fiscal document, mentioning several sums of money including 600 dirhams, and "min al-khidma al-saʿīda". On verso, there …
Recto: Fiscal document, minute fragment thereof, from the left margin. Dated 27 Ramaḍān, "aẓẓāma--llāhu barakatuhā". Verso: possibly second side of the same document; mostly blank …
Fiscal accounting: "...al-muʿāmilīn bi-[...] wa-Dimyāṭ..."
Fiscal account? Small fragment.
Receipt of payment or tax receipt, in Arabic script. There is a registration mark "الحمد] لله وبه استعين]". Name of the payee is not readable …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a state report. The ends of 6 lines are preserved: "...the ṭalḥiyyūn(?), and there did not remain in al-Ramla... Muḥammad(?) …
Verso (original use): Probably official correspondence. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved, wide space between the lines.