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Draft of Fatimid state correspondence. Addressed to the vizier ("ḥaḍrat al-wizāra") concerning either the appointment of an amir in Yemen, or written by an amir …
[ سيد]ي الاجل
ولما [[تحقق]] عرف المملوك حسن النية وجميل الراي وشريف الاصطناع
رغب الى مكارمة حضرته السامية زاد الله في جلالت…
[ ] my most glorious lord
When the slave [[established]] learnt of the good intention, the kind view and the noble patronage,
he desired to sho…
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
A ḥamdala and ṣalwala written in a chancery hand, presumably once part of a larger document. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Fiscal accounts, probably. The year is given (5[..] AH?) but is difficult to read. Folded into a bifolio and reused for poetry in Hebrew.
Official letter in Arabic script in a chancery hand, with wide line spacing. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved.
Fol. 2v: Possibly state correspondence, possibly a draft. Wide space between the lines. The same scribe reused verso of each fragment for Hebrew poetry. Mentions …
Decree (copy in Hebrew script) from the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir to a governor of Palestine (probably Anushtekin al-Dizbirī) informing him of another decree that had …
A petition was submitted by the Rabbanite Jewish Community to the Court of the Commander of the Faithful in which they requested that they be treated…
2 نسخين ترجمات 3 3 مناقشات
State document, extremely fragmentary. The name of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir is written "al-Mustanṣir Billah Amīr al-Muʾminīn."
1 نسخ
Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba b. Khalaf in Fustat. Dated: 503 or 530 AH.
Recto: The ends of two lines from an official letter (report or petition). Verso: Accounts in Arabic script.
Original use: Accounts in Arabic script, official-looking. Mentions al-Qāḍī al-Asʿad; Ṣafiyy al-Dawla; Ibrāhīm b. Ṣāliḥ Nūrī(?); Sayf al-Mujāhidīn; Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī; ʿAṭiyya; al-Faqīh. The headers …
Petition to the caliph al-Āmir (1101–30) from a woman attempting to collect a large debt of 241 dinars on the estate of a deceased person. …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1 بسم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحيـ[ـاته على مولانا]
وسيدنا الامام الامر باحكام الله امير الم…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Probably the top of a petition or report addressed to the mutawallī of something.
Fatimid petition. Dating: 422–23/1031–32. Second half of a petition to the caliph al-Ẓāhir requesting the return of a church that had been confiscated by decree …
[جميـ]ـع ما فيها من فضة ونحاس والات خشب
ورخام يساوى ذلك جملة كبيرة فنقضها
وبنا بقبضها دارا فبعضها معصرة وحوانيت
يستغلها جميع ذلك ويحصل…
All the silver, copper, wooden vessels
and marble that are in it. All of this amounts to a large quantity. He broke them down
and with t…
Bottom 5 lines of an official letter in Arabic script. Ends with either a request or an instruction, ويفعل بذلك ما عهد من همته والله …
Petition from a group of people to a chief vizier (Sayyid al-Wuzarāʾ) titled "al-Kāmilī." In Arabic script. Fragment (upper half only). The petitioners complain that …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Small fragment of a state document. On recto refers to "... (Dīwān al-?)aḥbās bi-l-Baḥriyya fa-baʿatha warāhu min...." On verso refers to something pertaining to al-Malik …
Receipt of some kind. The sum named is 1/2 dinar. Dated: Possibly 13 Ramaḍān 490 AH, but this should be checked. The payment seems to …
State document, probably a decree, last three lines, written on the joyous occasion of ʿĪd al-Naḥr. Preserved lines read as "فاعلم هذا واعمل..وكتب في يوم …
واعلم هذا واعمل بـ[ـه وليقرّ بأيديهم بعد ثبوته في ... بحيث يثبت مثله ان شاء الله تعالى]
كتب في يوم عيد النحر السعيد [سنة …. ]
[الحمد لله …
Fiscal account, probably.
Fragment of a state (fiscal?) document. Needs examination.
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 …
Document in a chancery hand, wide line spacing, parts of four lines preserved from somewhere toward the middle of the page top to bottom. Generous …
Lower right corner of a letter or petition for assistance. In Arabic script.
Fiscal account (?). There are numbers and possibly dates. Ductus seems like someone high-up in the administration. Needs examination, and comparison with similarly structured documents. …
1 مناقشة
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script. Contains the phrase "al-ḥamdu lil-lāh mustaḥiqq al-ḥamd."
Writing practice or drafts of the formulae typically used in official documents with prayers for the caliph ("... al-ṭāhirīn... al-akramīn...).
Verso: Fragment from the left side of an early Fatimid decree or other state document. The ends of three lines remain, including the word al-taqsīṭ. …
Tax receipt, Fatimid for the sum of one-quarter dīnār (rubʿ)? Registration mark at the top left corner- al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran li niʿmatihi.
Petition to a state official. In Arabic. After a taqbīl, the addressee is greeted with many titles ("al-majlis al-ʿādilī al-sayfī al-nāṣirī(?) al-kāmilī al-hādī"). The petitioner …
Small fragment of an official document, maybe a decree: الخراجية على نص من نسخ . . .
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.
Receipt ("tadhkira bism...") for the capitation tax of Maʿrūf b. Yahūdhā al-Yahūdī, an indigo merchant (nīlī) and perfumer (ʿattār), in Fustat. The registration mark / …
Petition to a Fatimid vizier, opening lines only, addressed to "my lord the most lofty vizier, companion and loyal adherent of the commander of the …
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Document in Arabic script. Possibly a state document. There is a single line, subsequently reused for a Judaeo-Arabic composition.
Original use: Verses from Leviticus. Secondary use: The margins are entirely filled with Arabic-script text from documents, mostly or entirely petitions or official-sounding letters. The …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script, possibly fiscal.
Tax receipt for the capitation of Bū l-ʿAlā b. Afḍal yahūdī for the year 500H.
Petition, in Arabic script. Dated: 12th C Ayyubid period. A group of poor workers (ṣunnāʿ) petition the Caliph and remind him of his promise of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
المماليك يقبلو الارض بالمجلس [الكريم وينهون ان … ؟]
واهلك اعاديه وحساده [
من جملة صناع مقامه الكريم و[
بانه ل…
Possibly the bottom of a tax receipt. Dated 610 or 620 AH.
Fatimid capitation tax receipt for Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 17 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405 (Khan reads 402). Written …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Official document, maybe a decree. The beginnings of three lines are preserved with very wide line spacing. Phrases include بذلك . . . .بالتاكيد في …
Tax collection (ḍamān) contract from the era of the caliph al-Mustanṣir, dated 477 kharājiyya (1087–88 CE). Mūsā b. ʿĪsā takes upon himself a payment of …
ضمن لمولانا وسيدنا الامام المستنصر بالله امير المومنين صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الائمة
الاكرمين…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fiscal document. Headed with an abbreviated basmala followed by the name Bū Manṣūr Wakīl al-Dīwān. There follows a list of four names accompanied by a …
State, document in Arabic script, probably a petition. Sort of a rudimentary hand. The petitioner renews the taqbīl, "al-mamlūk yujaddid ta[qbīl]."
Petition from Ṭāhir b. Isḥāq, a poor man from Alexandria, to the amir Qarāqūsh Bahāʾ ai-Dīn b. ʿAbdallāh al-Asadī (his nisba derives from his having …
The slave
Tāhir ibn Isḥāq
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the lofty, mighty and sublime presence, the most g…
Small, official-looking receipt. For [...] Ibrāhīm al-Quḍāʿī(?).