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Verso: A tax-related note referring to what Jaʿfar(?) b. [...] the jahbadh will do. Needs examination. This document was torn and reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
A few words from an official document in Arabic script. Mentions "muʿāmalat al-Shām." At least two different sizes of writing. Reused for Hebrew piyyut.
State document in Arabic script, issued by the "al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s. …
Tax receipt, jizyā, dated 507 H (?). Pinholes at the margin 5mm apart.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
State document, probably a fiscal order. Mentions rāhin/dāʾin in the first line, slaves (ghilmān), and property (ʿamāʾr). Some of the names mentioned are Abū Jawhar, …
State document, in Arabic script. 5 partially faded lines in chancery script are visible. Reused for bookbinding. Needs examination.
Receipt of an amount received by the dīwān of al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-fakhrī. Probably dated 11 Dhū l-Qaʿda 557 H.
Bottom of a petition. In Arabic script. "...al-raʾy al-sāmī... bi-l-wuqūf ʿalā mā anhāhu... wa-yaqif ʿinda... in shāʾa llāh...." On verso there is piyyut.
Tax receipt for Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq, likely for what he owes as the tax farmer of something (min jumlat mā ʿalayhi ʿan [ḍamānih?]...). On verso …
1 نسخ
Probably an Ikhshīdid fiscal document. See T-S NS 139.65 (PGPID 23643), belonging to the same Hebrew reuse. ASE
Fragment of a state correspondence, probably a decree, 5 lines, bottom-left corner of the document with traces of paper decay. Mentions the day of movement …
Verso (original use): State document, in Arabic script. Decree. Two lines only, a tentative reading is as follows "لي الكتاب...وقد الزمهم العمل والحال". YU. Written …
Fragment of an official letter, report, or petition from the medieval period. Barely any text is available to discern which of these document types is …
Probably fiscal document(s). Needs examination.
Tax receipt, maybe. Difficult to read. Penultimate line contains a ḥamdala.
Verso (probably original use): Fragment of a state document, in Arabic script. One of the lines is copied underneath; this might be later scribal practice.
Decree of investiture(?); two lines widely spaced. Contains rhymed prose in praise of someone: "the stars in the sky.......in their rotation like the order of …
Tax receipt.
Original use: Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Mentions sums in dirhams and mithqāl. Reused for a literary text in Judeo-Arabic on recto and verso.
Decree. Only part of one line is preserved, mentioning the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ, "...wa-waliyyihi ʿAbd al-Majīd Abī l-Maymūn al-Imām..."
Memorandum or other internal state communication. In Arabic script, with wide line spacing, fragmented baselines, and frequent diacritics. Four lines preserved, the fourth an interlinear …
Fiscal or para-fiscal document (i.e., prepared by state officials or by the Jewish community for the government). List of indigent people equally divided between natives …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Official-looking document in Arabic script ("min jumlat al-wuṣūl al-[...]"). Needs examination.
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 …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary. Mentions a few sums in dinars.
Petition in Arabic script. The sender's name may appear between lines 2 and 3 (ʿabduhu Khalaf....?). May mention Qalyūb (l. 3) and mentions merchandise 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.
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) in Fustat for Mawhūb b. Ghālib, a Christian. Dated: 537 AH = 1142/43 CE (previous PGP descriptions gave the …
Small, official-looking receipt. Trigger: afrada.... For ʿImrān b. al-Riṣāfī(?). Seems to be for 25 dinars. The ʿalāma at upper right looks like wa-l-ḥamdu li-l-lāhi musābiq …
A few words from a state document, perhaps a decree. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Letter in Arabic script, maybe official. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Needs examination for content. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text which …
Both sides of this small fragment contain phrases typical for petitions (الفضل هذه . . . حرس الله . . . ثبت مجدها . . …
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; …
Petition mentioning the names of Ismāʻīl and ʻUmar al-Kutāmī. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Complainte contre un homme de la tribu de Kutawa [...] …
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. On verso there is Hebrew literary/liturgical text arranged in columns.
Small fragment of a tax receipt for Yūsuf b. Ṣadaqa the Jew for his capitation tax payment in Fustat for the year [...].
Official document in Arabic script. Apparently dealing with witnesses and legal procedure. Fragments of two lines are preserved: ... fa-asqaṭahu min al-shahāda... min shuhūd al-bilād …
Account in Arabic script in small handwriting, possibly official (fiscal). Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in a hand resembling that of Abū Sahl Levi.
Recto (secondary use): Petition draft in Arabic script. The sender thanks the addressee for employing him in government service (khidma). Mentions "al-dawāwīn al-maʿmūra." The variants …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
A few words from an Arabic state document: "kutiba... dhī l-qaʿda...." Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Maybe draft of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for jottings. Mentions al-muqṭaʿ. The first long line mentions al-Shaykh al-Amīr Fakhr al-Dawla Ibn Ṭāhir …
Tax receipt for Abū l-Surūr b. Faraj. Trigger: addā. Registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh bihi athiq', praise be to God in whom I trust.
Verso (original use): Petition. The bottom 10 lines are preserved. The petitioner puts himself forward for government employment: المحقين مرسوم بالعناية وقبول الامول(؟) في . …
1 مناقشة
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Verso contains part of a large and beautiful ḥamdala and ḥasbala, likely from the bottom of a Fatimid decree.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Mubārak b. Ibrāhīm Ibn Sabrā, in Fustat. After the basmala, the trigger phrase is "tadhkira bism" (memorandum/receipt in the …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Blank verso. Perforated for binding. For the capitation tax of Hiba b. Yūsuf; same dossier as ENA 3936.3, T-S Misc.24.38.1–3, T-S AS …
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. …
Receipt for someone's capitation tax in Fustat for the year 6[..] AH (approx. 13th century CE). Needs examination.