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State document, probably a petition or official correspondence. First line - "al-Ṣāliḥī al-khidma li l-majlis". The second line has the word "al-Mamlūk kataba" written in …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Fragment of an official-looking document (fiscal?) in Arabic. The number 500 appears, possibly as part of a date.
Small fragment of an official document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved, with wide space between them. Reused on verso for …
Small fragment with Arabic script. State document? ENA 3695.4, ENA 3695.5, and ENA 3695.8 all look very similar, might be from the same original document.
1 نسخ
State (tax?) receipt. Dated: 9 Muḥarram 545 AH = 8 May 1150 CE. Needs examination.
Part of a preliminary draft of a chancery document addressed to a government official. ". . . bi-l-shadd minka fī istikhrāj al-māl ʿalā l-kamāl ʿalā …
المشارفات المشارفات ويقضيك
بالشد منك في استخراج المال على الكمال
على الكمال والتمام وقصر يد من يدوم الاحتما
عليك والمنع من احداث رسم …
Recto: Official Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)
Petition/letter of appeal for assistance likely addressed to 'the overseer' (al-mushārif, l. 1). The sender refers to this document as "this khidma." The sender is …
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Top of a decree(?) fragment with a basmala and few honorifics: al-amr al-karīm al-ʿālī al-mawlawī. Probably Mamlūkī.
Accounts in Arabic script. Might be state/fiscal. Mentions Fustat and 10 dinars.
Accounts of some kind in Arabic script. Possibly official. The format resembles that of the Ikhshīdid fiscal documents. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ in …
Verso (probably original use): Letter or petition in Arabic script. To a dignitary whose titles are "al-karīm al-akhaṣṣ al-awḥad al-raʾīs al-mufaḍḍal al-makhdūm zayn al-dīn sayyid …
الديوان(؟) اسعده الله(؟) الكريم الاخص الاوحد
الريس المفضل المخدوم زين الدين سيد الامرا
فخر الخواص عمدة الملوك ثقة السلاطين
خليل امير المؤمني…
Official correspondence or petition, in Arabic script. Probably Mamlūk era. Fragmentary to glean proper context but a preliminary reading is as follows: المرجو من الله …
Lower left corner of a fiscal document in Arabic script. Related to agrarian administration. On verso there is piyyut.
Petition (draft) from […] Mukhliṣ, in Minyat Ghamr, to an Ayyubid dignitary. In Arabic script. The petitioner complains about the young son of a neighbor …
[ ] Mukhliṣ, inhabitant of Minyat Ghamr.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
(The slave) reports to the seat o…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
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 …
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
State document in Arabic, two lines are visible. Fatimid-era. There is also a remnant of an Arabic text on recto mentioning "Isrāʾīl ʿalayhi al-salām," probably …
State document, in Arabic script. Drafts of mainly the beginnings of state documents, starting with the Basmala. The first draft mentions ḍamān, and the second …
…..لو ستر عليها واجتهاد…
فرغب في ضمانها من غيرهم وازاح علتهم و
…………من الديوان المذكور (؟)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
حارتين في اقطاع المقطعين و…
Official-looking letter(s) in Arabic script. Very damaged.
A few lines from the beginning of a hastily written report or petition: ان سبب هذه الخدمة الى جلالها ان عبدها قد . . . …
Two fragments from the middle and bottom of a petition to a vizier. Dating: likely 1051–62 CE, as Daniel b. ʿAzarya seems to be Gaʾon …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Recto (as conserved; secondary inscription): tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 5 Ramaḍān 403 …
Decree, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. Only three lines of text are preserved. Needs examination.
Petition from an official. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century (this can be narrowed if the person named is known from chronicles). Mentions an amir …
[ ] . . . عنده لاحد المماليك يسمى علم الدين سنجر المحمود[ي]
مبلغ وصـ[و]لات في ثمن قنده المبيع من شونه وهو
الف واربعمائة . . . . . .…
Verso (original use): Fiscal accounting. In Arabic script. Mentions the treasury (bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr): بالنفق من بيت المال المعمور من جملة . . . . …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in the hand of a prolific scribe.
Tax receipt?
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic ("... al-nabawiyya..."). Reused on both sides for Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: Fragment from the end of a state document, probably a decree. In a very large chancery hand: على آله الطاهرين وسلم تسليما. There are …
State document, fragmentary, in chancery hand. Mentions the province (or port?) of Damietta (thagr Dimyāṭ) and someone's arrival/appointment to it. Also has an ʿalama in …
Capitation tax receipt, Fatimid. For Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
State document, in Arabic script. One line in chancery script.
Tax receipt? - needs examination.
Verso (original use): remnant of an official Arabic document. Mentions "to al-Dār al-Saʿīda in Fustat."
Probably an official receipt of some kind. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a state document in Arabic. Beautiful hand. Mentions الحاج . . . واحضر الحجة على . . .
Report or petition draft, but most like the a report due to the verb "فاعلمته" (I inform) followed by the raʾyy clause.
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Probably accounts, possibly fiscal/state. Might mention ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Reused for a Hebrew literary text. (Information from CUDL)
State-issued receipt. Record of a ḥawāla transaction between Yeshūʿa the Jew (aka Shaʿyā Moṣeri) and Bilāl Agha Katkhuda (Ott. Tr. Kethüda) recorded at the Dīwān …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Decree, fragment, reused for Hebrew piyyut/poetry. The preserved text reads 'and on his brother' - wa ʿalā akhīhi.
State document, in Arabic script. Five fragmented lines of what seems like a petition or an internal correspondence. Mentions land-tax (bi-kharājihi). Needs examination.
]ـن امر[
وحد كل الحد في بحصـ[
واعلم انه وان ارقد(؟) ان و[
بخراجه والرقبان(؟) الفـ[
والسلم وكتب لا[
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: …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 17 lines are preserved. Dated: probably [5]32 AH = 1137/38 CE. Also possible is 432 AH = …
Possibly a petition in Arabic script. Dating: Ayyubid or Mamluk-era? At the top: [...] Manṣūr(?) b. Abū l-Ṭayyib al-mutaʿalliq bi-dīwān al-[...]. Mentions blessings for the …
Receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 21 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. Amount: one-half, …
Fiscal document, reused for the Talmud commentary of Rav Nissim Gaʾon. Needs further examination. T-S Ar.47.55 was published by Sheraga Abramson, Rav Nissim Gaʾon, pp. …