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Tax receipt?
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Petition to the Ayyubid sultan al-ʿĀdil regarding the capitation tax. Dating: ca. 596–615 AH, which is 1200–18 CE. The petitioner asks that his tax rate …
العادلى المظفري [ ]ـي .[سلطان]
جيوش المسلمين وادام قدرته واعلا ابدا كـ[ـلمته] ...
المملوك يقبل الارض امامه وينهى الى
رافته واحسانه …
... al-ʿĀdil, the victorious [ sultan]
of the armies of the Muslims, (may God) cause his power to endure and exalt his word for ever.
The slave…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
A part of a decree from the court of the Fātimid Caliph al-Ẓāhir, protecting the rights of the Qaraite communities in Palestine against Rabbanite encroachment, …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Two lines from an official letter in Arabic script. Mentions the people of Giza, and the making of tawābīt, probably a reference to coffins? Reused …
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 …
1 نسخ
Decree. Only part of one line is preserved, mentioning the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ, "...wa-waliyyihi ʿAbd al-Majīd Abī l-Maymūn al-Imām..."
State receipt in Arabic script, issued by "al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s. Probably …
Top three lines of a state document in Arabic script. First a basmala, then: ثبت(؟) اصدار(؟) مالك المجلس السامي الامير الاجل المفضل(؟). In between lines …
Letter or state document in Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. Three lines are preserved. Mentions iqṭāʿāt and the year 589 H, if read …
Likely a state document of some sort (fiscal?). The right column is headed by a ṣalwala and mentions a district (... min aʿmāl al-[...]...). Needs …
Capitation tax receipt. For Abū l-Riḍā(?) b. [...]. Dated: 590 AH (or 569?). Needs examination.
Report or petition. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Twice mentions the Berbers (البربر) who are in the area of Abshīsh (ابشيش) in the …
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Probably late 12th or 13th C. Mentions tawqīʿ at least twice and the purchase and price of timber (ḥaṭab). …
Minute fragment with a few Arabic words preserved on each side, either from a legal or official document. AA
Tax receipt for the capitation tax of Zayn(?) b. Abū l-Faraj(?) the Jew. On verso there is a blessing for a groom in Hebrew. Needs …
Petition (formula: al-mamlūk yuqabbil al-yad al-ʿāliya), 1106H (?)
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 …
Document in Arabic script, perhaps a state petition, beginning with "wa l-mamlūk yasʾal l-tawfīq" and mentions a wall "ṣūr"; reused for poetry in Judaeo-Arabic (see …
Recto: State document in Arabic script. Probably an internal state memorandum concerning taxation of agricultural produce and wheat. The script is a bit difficult to …
Capitation tax receipt. For Eliyya b. Yehuda(?). Needs examination.
Verso (original use): Fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. Refers to Ḥasan b. Ḥayyūn and his cousins who wish the sender to travel with …
Fragment from near the top of an official report or petition, mentioning the storehouses of the sugar refineries: ". . . ṣalawāt Allāh ʿalā mālikih …
State document, probably a report, in Arabic script. Mentions the Nile flooding "wafā al-Nīl al-mubārak", and begins with a Quranic verse (32:27). Only four lines …
] "به زرعا تاكل منه انعامهم وانفسهم افلا
يبصرون" ا]لطاهرة على سائر الدول بوفا النيل المبارك
و]القتها من عارض بقصة وافته منه فيه هالك…
Tax receipt for a Jewish man Bū Sahl(?) b. Khalaf for his capitation tax in Fustat for the year 535 AH = 1140/41 CE.
Probably a state document in Arabic script. Only a few partial lines are preserved on both recto and verso.
(3r)Tax receipt. Needs examination.
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. Fragments of 4 lines are preserved; unclear how much of the substance is preserved. Reused …
State document, in Arabic script. In chancery hand. Probably a letter fragment. Only the basmala from the verso and the address from the recto are …
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Document in Arabic script. Fiscal? Needs examination. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ, mentioning Ḥannuka.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Khalaf b. Ghālib the Jew, a druggist (ʿaṭṭār) and something else (jabbān? jazzār?) in Fustat for the year 504 …
Possibly an official document in Arabic script, but the hand is crude. Could also be an IOU with a layout reminiscent of state documents. Concerns …
Upper fragment: small fragment of a letter or official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 5 lines are preserved.
Receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 16 Ṣafar 404. Written by the …
Fragment of a state document in Arabic. Only blessings for the caliph are preserved: ... amīr al-muʾminīn ʿaḍada allāh bihī [al-dīn...] ṣalawāt allāh wa-barakātuhū wa-nawāmī …
Bifolio containing what look like fiscal accounts, in relatively narrow columns. Very difficult to read. Probably related to iqṭāʿ, mentions maqṭūʿāt on the verso. Dated …
Fragment of two lines from a state document, reused for liturgical text for Shabbat with Judaeo-Arabic instructions. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Receipt for the capitation tax of Mūsā b. Lāwī (Moshe b. Levi) the Jew in Fustat. ʿAlāma at upper left: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq. Dated: …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for bifolio of Hebrew literary text.
Mamlūk-era, tax receipt, in Arabic script.
State document, Ottoman, dated Jumada I 1238 H. Ledger page connected to the Dīwān Anwāl al-Ḥarīr in Alexandria (most of the institutional title is in …
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 report or petition. The ends of ~7 lines are preserved, widely spaced, written in a chancery hand. Possibly a complaint about people taking over …
Original use: Two lines from a petition or report about property rights, mentioning an alley (zuqāq) in Fustat and something under the name of al-qāḍī …
فـ[ـسطاط مصر بزقاق بني نكير بحافة جلنار يعرف بالقاضي السد[يد
]ـها …. في موضعها ومن حقوق كلية العبد كوم كان منها قديما صفية(؟) مرقل(؟)
…
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, …
Official document(s) in Arabic script. The layout does not seem to be that of a typical tax receipt. Needs examination.
Bifolio with fiscal accounts. One page begins: "waṣala ilā [bayt al-māl?] al-maʿmūr min jihat Muḥammad b. ʿAmmār al-wakīl fī [...]," then the date: 413 or …
Verso (secondary use): Official-looking receipt of sale or rent concerning a warehouse/shop (ḥānūt), the location of the property is difficult to make out. In Arabic …
Tax receipt of some sort, for the poor Jews of Fustat. Very similar to T-S K25.240.6v. T-S K25.240 ff.3–6 comprise one cluster (ḥikr receipts?) and …