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Upper part of a petition (first 9 lines) addressed to "al-amīr... al-mujāhid al-muthāghir al-murābiṭ al-isfahsalār... Shihāb al-Dīn." Dating: 13th century, or possibly later. The petitioner …
1 نسخ
Fiscal document, or accounts in a bifolio, in Arabic script with integers in Coptic numerals. The columns are headed "al-mustakhraj" and "al-maṣrūf" (the former is …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Probably an official receipt of some kind. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL)
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū l-Faraj b. Ibrāhīm.
Fiscal document. Mentions a payment of 9 wariq dirhams a day for the month Ramaḍān al-muʿaẓẓam, for a total of 270 dirhams. Reused on recto …
Fatimid state document. Report to al-Malik al-Afḍal from al-thaghr al-maḥrūs (probably Tyre). Ca. 1108 CE. Related fragments are as follows (the clusters are defined based …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Eliyya b. [...] in New Cairo and Fustat for the year 631 AH = 1233/34 CE.
State-issued receipt for al-Muʿallam Salmūn Iskenderānī who is listed with the administrative title "عامل" (financial intendant or collector of revenues). Dated: "in the end of …
Official-looking or commercial receipt (ṣaḥḥa...). Or maybe commercial. Resembles T-S AS 179.142. Needs examination.
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Large format with 16 lines preserved, marginal notes, and crossings out. The document is an internal fiscal Fatimid accounting document …
Probably a state receipt, in Arabic script, for the purchase of a Nubian female slave named Tawfīq. It seems that the seller is Baqāʾ b. …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in the hand of a prolific scribe. Join: Shulamit Elizur.
Fiscal document, top and bottom missing. Refers to kharāj payments for the year 437 kharājī (about five lines up from the bottom of the page); …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition or other formal state correspondence. The beginnings of 8 lines are preserved, mostly consisting of honorifics for the …
شعبان بن عبد الله ابو بكر الكرمي
محمد بن محمد التركماني
بسم الله الـ[ـرحمن الرحيم]
صلوات الله وبركاته ونو[امي زكواته وافضل سلام…
Recto: Informal note in difficult Arabic script, scrawled basmala on top, possibly a memorandum to do with land tenure? Needs further examination. Verso: Informal note …
Probably a state/fiscal document. Mentions a date, then a space, then "al-jahābidha" (the tax collectors), then a space, then at the bottom a date span. …
State document, likely an order in response to a petition or report. Stating that it has been confirmed that Sharaf al-Dawla Mūsā violated and oppressed …
Fiscal register, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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 …
Minute fragment with a few Arabic words preserved on each side, either from a legal or official document. AA
A few words from a state document in Arabic script, mentioning the name Saʿīd (or likely urging someone to exert effort (fī dhālik ijtihād) to …
Petition draft, or most like pen trials, in Arabic script. Contains the yunhī formula. Writing exercise on recto.
Report from the period of al-Afḍal, probably. In Arabic script. Nine lines from the middle of the report are nearly completely preserved. Sent from a …
Tax receipt. Fatimid-era. In Arabic script. A portion (ʿaraṣa) of a warehouse is leased to Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm. The sum is 7.5 (written at lower …
Official-looking correspondence in Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. Excerpts: حصل . . . . الامر يصل ذلك وان . . . الفندق حمله …
Tax receipt. Contains registrations (ʿalāʾim) from the Dīwān al-Ishrāf at the top. There are also several endorsements underneath. The date looks like 547 AH = …
A few words from a large state document ([...] min jiha. . .)
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
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
State document, probably a decree. The fragmented line reads as "واما ما ذكره من دعا الخاصة". Hebrew liturgical text on recto.
State correspondence. In Arabic script. Chancery hand with wide space in between lines. Only the beginnings of 4 lines are preserved (reused for jottings in …
Receipt for someone's capitation tax in Fustat. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE).
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right and a jahbadh signature at the bottom.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Possibly mentions ʿAbdallah b. Manṣūr in line 4 after the basmala in line 3. Requires further examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of a petition addressed to al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Majīḍ (1132–49). Apart from the opening formula and the blessings on the …
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
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.
State document, in Arabic script. A Mamlūk-era order (marsūm) from two amīrs to the overseer of the peasants' affairs in their area (al-fallāḥiyya was l-muzāraʿa …
المرسوم بالامر الكريم العالي المولوي الاميري الكبيري السيدي
المالكي المخدومي السيفي طقطباي…انجزهم الله تعالى الى [جمـ]ـاعـ[ـة ] المشائخ
والفلاح…
Verso (original use): Possibly a fiscal account. Mentions various sums of money. At the bottom, the name Muḥammad b. Saʿīd appears. Reused by Efrayim b. …
Petition from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the caliph al-Ẓāhir (matn only) defending his position against Yūsuf al-Sijilmasi, the Iraqi leader in Palestine. Dating: original document …
And as far as the argument in favor of the two synagogues and the two authorities is concerned, (it has already been refuted by) Ibn
Sijilm…
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Testimony in Arabic script probably meant to accompany an investiture petition from the gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda to the newly appointed caliph al-Mustanṣir billāh, listing …
(Having been requested,) we, all together and each separately,
(to deliver this testimony,) namely all those writing their witness and signing
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Official receipt for Abū l-Najm b. Ḥasan(?). Unclear for what (sugar?). Payment of 2 dinars? May be dated 520 AH. Needs examination.
Some sort of receipt. Needs examination.
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Fragment of an official-looking (fiscal?) account in Arabic script. Needs further examination.
Writing exercise in a chancery hand, two different hands alternating. Encomium to an official. Alternatively, the original document may be a genuine document rather than …
Recto: Memorandum concerning the demolition of a building (possibly a mosque) and the sale of its timber and bricks. The text mentions Old Mosque and …
1 مناقشة
State document, probably a report to a higher official (not a petition). This is a long strip cut from the right side of the document. …
Petition. Small fragment. Contains a taqbīl clause (and not much else). The beginning formula following the taqbīl resembles petition openings during the time of the …
Verso (original use): Small fragment of an official-looking Arabic letter. Parts of four lines are preserved. May mention Barqa (unless this is something like "bi-riqqihī"), …
]علي بربـ[
]لى برقة ويقطع البلاد
]اث الله عليه محابة(؟)
ـ]ـن فاعلمهم ان العذر (الغدر=alt) بين
Original use: official account (makhzūma) in Arabic script. Needs examination.