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Official-looking small receipt. ENA 3968.21 and ENA 3968.23 appear to be in the name of the same person (Ḥusayn b. [...]). Needs examination.
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A pair of conjoined (either glued together or never separated in the first place) tax receipts related to a tax farm (ḍamān). Dated: 25 Jumādā …
Official letter. Maybe a petition? Dated 4 Shaʿbān 566 (or 567 or 568?) AH, which is 12 April 1171 CE, if read correctly. The tarjama …
Fragment of an Arabic official document reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on both sides in the hand of a prolific scribe.
Petition or formal letter concerning an iqṭāʿ, which was subsequently torn, and a related record written on verso. Dating: Probably Mamluk or early Ottoman era, …
Capitation tax receipt. Trigger: tadhkira bism. Dated: 502 AH = 1108/09 CE if read correctly. For Abū l-Yumn(?) b. Baṣal(??). Needs further examination.
Petition, possibly Mamluk.
Two partial lines from a large petition in Arabic script. Some phrases: "... bi-waqt al-jibāyāt fī zamānihā(?) mujtahid... wa-yasal wa-yaḍraʿ...." There are also a few …
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam a Jewish silk merchant (qazzāz) for the year 525 AH. See T-S AS …
State document in Arabic script. The first line mentions Dīwān al-Juyūsh al-Manṣūra (the bureau of the victorious armies). Lists people named [...] al-Dawla Dāʾūd al-Nāʾib …
State document(s), likely Ayyubid. Recto might be headed "tawqīʿ" and may grant someone the right to engage in business with the price of shipping something …
Rotulus. 4 Arabic-script fragments were pasted together to form a long rotulus for a Hebrew literary text on verso. Text 1 is a decree (wide …
State document, in Arabic script. Five faded lines on a small paper fragment. Mentions the state official Fakhr al-Mulk. A Fatimid state official by the …
State document, in Arabic script. Maybe a decree issued in response to a petition. Wide space between the lines. Mentions a masjid in al-aʿmāl al-gharbiyya …
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Tax receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 7 (?) [month not preserved] …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a capitation tax receipt, probably. Needs examination.
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Addressed to a lower official requesting to summon some people. Portions of 5-6 lines are preserved. Refers to agents, a …
Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script, maybe a report or a decree. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ. Requires further examination.
Probably a document, but could be a religious text such as a prayer. In Arabic script, in a very large (chancery?) hand. Full of fancy …
State document in Arabic script, with extensive diacritics and vowels. Dating: ca. 11th–13th century. Praising a ruler and emphasizing the tranquility and the security in …
Official document of some kind. Abū Naṣr al-[...] may owe 6.25 dinars. There is a date (Dhū l-Ḥijja something), but the year seems to be …
Small fragment of Arabic document(s). Recto looks like part of a line from a state document. Verso has a mirror-image imprint of text from another …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Lower fragment, recto: Document in calligraphic Arabic script. Maybe a state document. Phrases: وبيعه بالسعر المستوفي . . . حق(؟) فقد سير الغلة صحبته مملوكه …
Recto: Bifolio with a state-related document (draft or archival copy?). The main text block on the right states that there is an urgent need (al-ḥāja …
A Fatimid decree fragment, possibly of an investiture. Recycled by Efrayim b. Shemarya.
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Bottom part of a (tax?) receipt.
Verso: One line from a state document, evidently a decree or official letter issued by the caliph al-Ḥākim: من عبد الله ووليه المنصور ابي علي …
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 …
Mamluk-era state document in Arabic script. Dated: 675 AH = 1276/77 CE. Contains various annotations by clerks and is endorsed by both thin and thick …
Document in Arabic script. Probably an official report or petition, based on the hand and layout. The ends of ~6 lines are preserved. The subject …
State document, probably a petition draft, in Arabic script. The text reads as "المملوك يخدم مجلس مولانا وسيدنا القاضي". There are other jottings in Arabic …
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
State document originating from the Ayyubid administration in Damascus leading up to 644 AH = 1246/47 CE. The joins are not certain. The same Hebrew …
Verso (original use): "Commercial receipt" for ʿArūs b. Yosef.
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.
Petition or report. In Arabic script. Probably sent from the village of Danūhiyya (modern spelling: دنوهيا) in the Sharqiyya district of the Nile Delta (the …
Fatimid state report. Dating: beginning of the 12th century, during the reign of al-Afḍal. Describes a battle against the Crusaders. This fragment reports on the …
... of the purity of his heart and the nobility (literally: cleanness) of his disposition [ ]
and his impetuonsness for the defence of Islam and…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Probably an official report in Arabic script. Approximately 6 lines are preserved, but very faded and hard to read. Needs examination. Reused on verso for …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: End of Dhū l-Qaʿda 404. Both the recto …
State document, fiscal. Maybe concerning two months of agricultural taxes. Dated: looks like 403 AH, but this should be checked. The main text after the …
Letter addressed to the amir Muḥammad b. Baghdād. In Arabic script. Dating: late Mamluk or Ottoman-era. Begins, "baʿd al-taḥiyya wa-l-taslīm wa-l-ʿizz wa-l-takrīm bi-l-jināb al-karīm...." There …
2 نسخين
Fragment of a state document. Ayyubid? Interesting layout. One text block begins "uḥḍira ilā al-dīwān fī . . ."; the next mentions al-Shām. Needs further …
Verso: Fiscal document. Very faded. Dated: 440 AH? A sum of money is specified in the middle section. Needs examination. Reused for a magical spell …
Middle part of a tax receipt in the hand of Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, presumably issued for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. This is one of …
Small fragment from an Arabic official document. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved: bi-yad mawlāy al-shaykh... wa-aḥdara... lā zāla... Reused for piyyuṭ on recto.
State document in Arabic script. Uses the phrase khidmat mālik al-riqq (see Khan, ALAD, 345, 368, 434 for meaning and other examples); and see T-S …
Petition in Arabic, with two lines well-preserved. Medieval-era. The preceding shelfmark T-S AS 186.57 was reused for alphabetical practice by the same scribe as T-S …
Small fragment of an official report. Two full lines are preserved and part of a third. Mentions "explaining the situation" and "the fleet" (al-usṭūl).
Small fragment of an official document (petition or decree?): والله تعالى وعدل هذه الدولة ما يقوم . . . (Information in part from CUDL.)