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Verso: Three lines from a petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir (his name is just barely preserved in the final line). This is clearly a draft. …
1 نسخ
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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Fol. 7v: Fragment (9 lines) from an unusual state document. Mentions the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira) and contains many Greek/Coptic numerals, which is atypical for fiscal …
Part of one line from an Arabic state document (decree?).
Capitation tax receipt for Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam(?) in Fustat for the year 520(?) AH.
Fatimid capitation tax receipt for somebody's payment in New Cairo.
Document(s) in Arabic script. Possibly legal or having to do with fiscal accounting. Mentions sums of money and "government lands" (al-arāḍī al-sulṭāniyya). Receipt for produce …
]حضور تسليم المذكوين في هذا العزل(؟)
]لغلة المعينة فيه وهي ماية وثمانين رثلاثين اردبا
]ـا والذي اصدقوه في ذلك العالي..برسوله(؟)
]استمرار(؟) …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Zayn b. Hiba in New Cairo.
Verso: Petition or report to the Fatimid vizier al-Afḍal (r. 1096–1121) regarding a government appointee reporting for duty or fulfilling an order. Including a raʾy …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
State document, report, Fatimid. The report is written on the 3rd of Dhū l-Ḥijja, of an unspecified year, and mentions a previous report that arrived …
اخر ما القدرة(؟) بعده عمل بتاريح يوم الاربعا الثالث
من ذي الحجة….ذكر اخر الوارد من الديوان السعيد
والذي تجدد بعد ذلك خلو الاسواق من الاخباز
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Fiscal document. Challenging to read. May mention sugar. Needs examination.
Verso: Official correspondence. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. Dating: likely ca. first half of the 12th century, based on the dating of recto. Mentions news …
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 …
Top part of a memorandum in the name of [Bū] l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on a dyeworks (maṣbagha) in Sinnūris. Date not preserved. …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Possibly the bottom of a tax receipt. Dated 610 or 620 AH.
Fiscal account, probably. There is a year at upper left. Needs examination.
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Recto: Small fragment (2 lines) from an official report. Needs examination for content.
Verso: Fragment of a state document, possibly a decree. 2 lines preserved. In Arabic script. Some phrases read as "yanālu aṣḥābuhu mimman yaḍumm... wa-akhdh...", "wa-l-muṭālaba …
Fragment of two lines from a state document, reused for liturgical text for Shabbat with Judaeo-Arabic instructions. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Small, official-looking receipt. Beginning 'afrada....' For ʿImrān b. al-Riṣāfī(?). Same payer: T-S AS 176.438 and T-S AS 176.439.
State document, in Arabic script. A petition asking for a rescript, probably directed directly to the caliph, because of the raʾy formula towards the end. …
Recto: Chancery exercises. The basmala appears twice, and one line begins, "Qāla Amīr al-Muʾminīn..." Verso: State document, Fatimid. Opens with a reference to an employee …
Very unusual account, written in large letters, likely fiscal. Perhaps wages for soldiers/mercenaries? Recto, upper section: -people's names such Masʿūd b. Manṣūr b. Sabʿ(?) and …
Jizya receipt, in Arabic script. Faḍāʾil b. Bū l-Faraj the Jew pays one dirham towards his capitation tax in Fusṭāṭ for the year 584 H.
Recto: Arabic prayer (يا قادر على كل شي لا اله الا انت . . . وينصر الاسلام نصرا . . . اهل بيت محمد . …
Decree or petition. Portions of two lines are preserved, mentioning Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad b. [...], and a version of a raʾy clause: ...bi-khayri mā yarāhu …
Left side of an Arabic-script letter. Possibly a petition, or simply a letter that draws on petition-like phrases (this hypothesis is supported by the fact …
Tax receipt for the capitation of Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadaqa in Fustat for the year 526 AH. Amount: ½ dīnār (the lowest rate). Jahbadh: Hibat Allāh. …
Original use: Fragment of an Arabic state document with wide line spacing. Decree? The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved, including prayers for the caliph: …
Fiscal account? Small fragment.
State document. Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir regarding a murder on a boat. The son of the petitioner was traveling with a young fellow-merchant from …
بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل تحياته على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستنصر بالله
أمير المومنين صلوات الله ع…
State fiscal and administrative text from the Ayyubid period. Dated: 4 Rabīʿ II 595 AH = 3 February 1199 CE. Written in the form of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله حمد الشاكرين
لما ورد امر المولا الطواشي الاسفه سلار الكبير بها الدين قراقوش المنصوري
الافضلی بخط کریم …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God, with the praise of those who give thanks.
When the order of our ma…
State document, in Arabic script. The decree of al-ʿAbbās, the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, concerning the monks of Mt. Sinai and ordering that no unusual impositions …
Fragment from near the top of an official report or petition, mentioning the storehouses of the sugar refineries: ". . . ṣalawāt Allāh ʿalā mālikih …
Verso: Minute fragment of Arabic-script text, possibly a decree, but late. Requires further examination.
Tax receipt, Fatimid, possibly for the year 414? 11.5 x 10.5. NB: There is a discrepancy between the numbering of the manuscripts and the photos; …
Receipt of some kind for Ibrāhīm b. [...]. A period of one year is specified. There is a word that looks like "halīlaj" (myrobalan), but …
Receipt for someone's capitation tax in Fustat for the year 6[..] AH (approx. 13th century CE). Needs examination.
State or legal document in Arabic script. 6 lines are preserved, with moderately wide space in between. Mentions "wa-khaṭṭ al-shaykh Abū l-Faraj" and "[...] al-madhkūr." …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in the hand of a prolific scribe.
First eight lines of a letter addressed to a dignitary ("mawlāya ʾadāma llāh ʿizzah fi ʾamrihi wa-masʾalat mukātabat"), in a chancery-trained hand. Possibly dealing with …
State document in Arabic on recto, very wide line spacing. Medieval-era. The remnants of two partial lines are visible. Both sides were reused for a …
Petition, or maybe its draft, to the Fatimid Caliph al-ʾĀmir bi Aḥkām Allah. Verso is also some form of state document in a chancery hand, …
Verso (original use): Fragment from the upper left corner of a petition or official letter in Arabic script. ASE
Petition, possibly, or a report. In Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. The document concerns the execution of an official decree (manshūr …
Original use: Fiscal document in Arabic script (al-mudda al-madhkūra... ʿammā yaṣil min al-nawāḥī al-baḥriyya... al-[...] al-sulṭānī...). Large, with multiple distinct entries. Needs examination. Secondary uses: …
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. …
Receipt for Abu Sahl the teacher (al-muʿallim). Possibly a tax receipt, Fatimid.
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 …