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Fragment from the top of a petition, probably. The sender's name may be partially legible. Opens with a line containing the words عقد and عقدي …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Refers to two iqṭāʿs (على الاقطاعين المذكورين). The last line bears a date that may be 403 AH or 430 …
Petition to addressed to a noble woman, probably the Fatimid empress Sitt al-Mulk given the honorifics. In Arabic script. Written in two columns. The petitioner …
مملوك مولاتنا خلد الله ملكها
الخلف(؟)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عبد مولاتنا السيدة الشـ[ـريفة]
الملكة حرس الله ملكها وحرس عزها
وادام م…
The slave of our mistress, may God make her reign eternal
(al-Khalaf?)
In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.
The slave of our …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in the hand of a prolific scribe.
Verso: Draft of a beginning of a report to an official, possibly a vizier, from a lower official. Beginning formula and opening honorifics are preserved. …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Account, fiscal, probably Fatimid, with amounts listed in dinars and dirhams. Current folio number unclear; item 15 in DPUL.
State correspondence (petition?) addressed to a higher official. In Arabic script. Very wide line spacing. 4 short lines are preserved. Phrases such as: التهاني(؟) اليه …
1 نسخ
Small fragment of Arabic document, maybe official.
Recto is probably a state report in Arabic script. Damaged and very difficult to read. Referring to people fleeing from a battle, al-Shām, Egypt, ʿAsqalān, …
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One line from a Fatimid state document, maybe a decree. Very large letters and line spacing: ولم يزل تحميد افعالك في درج السامية(؟) مترقيا . …
Possibly the bottom of a tax receipt. Dated 610 or 620 AH.
Receipt or account in Arabic script. For Abū l-Afrāḥ Yūsuf (the well-known merchant). See tag (commercial receipt). Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Looks like a state/fiscal hand.
Fiscal document, in Arabic script, bottom part of the fragment. Refers to a sum of 70 dinars. The document is dated Muḥarram 487 H and …
Petition to an Ayyubid sultan, possibly Al-ʿĀdil I (13th century), opening only. On verso there is a piyyuṭ, possibly for Yom Kippur. (Information from Khan …
[ ا]لهمام ناصر الاسلام غياث الانام سيف المومنين سلطان جيوش المسلمين
خليل امير المومنين وادام قدرته واعلى ابدا كلمته وانفذ احكامه
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[ ] the heroic, the helper of Islam, the succour of mankind, sword of the believers, sultan of the armies of the Muslims,
the friend of…
Letter in Ottoman Turkish to the sultan that references at least three imperial officials and the transfer of a thousand qantars of gunpowder "bārūt" (l. …
The end of one line from a state document in Arabic script (decree vs. petition vs. report). Quite faded. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
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 …
Fiscal document(s) in Arabic script. Bifolio. One entry on each page of recto. The right side is concerning the transport and fiscal administration of agricultural …
Two petitions in Arabic script, which have been glued together. Reused for piyyuṭim on verso in a beautiful hand (one has the refrain El Melekh). …
Report from a Fatimid official. Dated: Dhū l-Qaʿda 495 AH (August–Sept 1102) — but this reading might be incorrect. Talks about the cutting off of …
1 مناقشة
Receipt for someone's capitation tax in Fustat. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE).
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, interspersed with Arabic script in the wide spaces what seems like a draft of a letter or just …
]وسعادته لمضافرته ومطالبته؟
]افدته يعزمه مظهر/بعزمه يظهر لي وله قواها
] للنجاج باولاها واخراها
] يعمل عليها وصدره حالا بع…
Fiscal account. Contains at least two registration marks, one of which is الحمد لله وبه توفيقي. Also mentions Jews (al-Yahūd) and contains a ḥasbala. Dated …
State document, extremely fragmentary, report or petition. Mentions 'al-majlis al-ʿālī' and 'imtathal ilaihi'.
Fragment of a state document. Ayyubid? Interesting layout. One text block begins "uḥḍira ilā al-dīwān fī . . ."; the next mentions al-Shām. Needs further …
Bifolio in which two of the four pages have entries that sound like language from (state?) receipts, and a third page has a legal-sounding formula.
Nine lines in two different hands; one hand seems to be a chancery hand and the other one is not as elegant. The document starts …
Fragment of an official-looking document (fiscal?) in Arabic. The number 500 appears, possibly as part of a date.
Tax receipt for Makārim b. Isḥāq al-Ṭabīb, who is known from several other documents (see tag). Dating: ca. first half of the 13th century.
Petition from a Jewish man to a Muslim general (al-isfahsalārī > isfahsalār), possibly named Bahāʾ al-Dīn or Bahāʾ al-Dawla. Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: probably …
Draft of a petition or note, in Arabic script, asking for charity on account of the sender's poverty. At lower left the name(s) of the …
State document, Fatimid decree, in Arabic script. The decree is addressed to the military general Fāris al-Dawla. The document is a draft as the recto …
Report to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ from a military official. The sender refers to previous petitions, and also makes a new request for a rescript. …
[ ] When the gross receipts headed with the [noble] motto arrived [ ]
[ ] on the verso of the document of the director of stipends, the footsoldi…
Verso (original use): Fiscal accounting document (or an official order for the release of funds?), complete with ḥamdala and ḥasbala. Dated: 5 Shawwāl 4xx (412?).
Lists in Arabic of unclear significance, needs examination. All four pages of the bifolium are filled. Likely a fiscal account. Many names appear, e.g., Qusṭanṭīn, …
State document in Arabic script, possibly a petition. The ends of ~14 lines are preserved. It has been cut and one piece has been glued …
Official receipt of some kind.
Fragment of official correspondence. In Arabic script, chancery hand, wide space between the lines. Portions of ~5 lines are preserved from near the beginning, mainly …
Verso: State correspondence, petition or report, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. The sender informs that he has appointed an appropriate person for the job, using …
Response to the endorsement of a petition by two men, one of whom is Ibrāhīm, son of the illustrious judge. The case is referred to …
[Praise be to God] alone and his blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad, the prophet, and save (him).
The two servants of our master, the praises of…
Petition fragment (upper left corner). The ends of 5 lines are preserved. The addressee is called 'nuṣrat al-mujāhidīn' among other titles. Dating: Ayyubid or Mamluk. …
Recto: receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office …
ذو القعدة
العشرين [منه]
باسم سرور بن مرقس (؟) باسم انو يعـ[قوب ]
لسنة احدى واربعمىة .[ ]
السادس والعشرين منــــــــــــــــــه [ ]
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Petition, Fatimid period. Written and signed by a stipendiary of the state in his own hand: Aḥmad b. Ḥamza b. Aḥmad al-Umrāʾī (the reading of …
المملوك
احمد بن حمزة بن احمد الامراي (الاعرابي؟)
رقعة ما نسختها
بعد الدعا
المملوك يقبل الارض بالمقام المعظم النبوي ضاعف الله انواره
Petition (formula: al-mamlūk yuqabbil al-yad al-ʿāliya), 1106H (?)
Petition from Abū Bakr b. ʿAlī to a dignitary whose name is torn off. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan, who may be a kātib. (Information in part …
Verso (original use): Petition or decree. The ends of ~6 lines are preserved. Between the lines and on recto (secondary use): Account in Arabic script. …
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 …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a petition from an unemployed person, "baṭṭāl bilā ʿamal". Mentions the amīr Fāris al-Dawla. The amīr Fāris al-Dawla was …