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Recto: Letter in Arabic script to Sitt Nadd, probably from her husband. The writer rejoiced at the news of her deliverance (khalāṣ) (childbirth? or from …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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Original text: Three lines in calligraphic Arabic script. Possibly part of a document. Prayers for Muḥammad are clearly legible (الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا …
Petition addressed to the Italian consul in Cairo. Dated 10 August 1865 CE. Information from FOTM: "Although the majority of the material preserved in the …
(folio 1, ln. 19-26)
essere entrati con forza nella casa di campagna del sottoscritto e preso dalla stalla le due…
...the fact that the aforementioned administrators [of Ibrahim Bey] entered by force the cou…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Receipt in Arabic and Hebrew script for a purse full of coins from Nahray b. Nissim to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy in Alexandria.
1 نسخ
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
Family letter in Arabic script. The writer mentions visiting Ḥamā (kunt batnazzal ilā Ḥamā); reports that he/she now has three daughters; sends regards to a …
Probably a receipt for a rent payment by Yashūʿ (?) al-Yahūdī for his store (? ḥānūt) in ḥārat al-yahūd, mentioning the date Dec 1832/Jan 1833 …
Letter in Arabic addressed to Muhammad Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭār in Cairo, from a certain Hajj Muhammad ʿAshrī al-ʿAṭṭār. Dated 16 April 1808 CE (19 Safar 1223 …
A good supplement.
The peace of God the exalted and his mercy and blessings, and his most abundant greetings—with these we greet
his nobl…
Difficult-to-read and very brief Arabic document, containing the common but mysterious glyph لے at the top of recto and phrases such as "mamlūkuhu", 'li l-sharṭ' …
4 pages. 3 of them are brief notes, along with accounts, signed and sealed by Anṭūn al-Wakīl aka Anṭūn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf to a certain muʿallim …
Recto: A brief note in Arabic addressed to David ben Naʿim and signed by [...] ʿUmar [...] Nāẓir al-Amwāl. There are also accounts/sums at the …
Recto: Letter in Arabic to Hayyim al-Ṣarrāf (moneychanger/banker) in the High Diwan (al-Dīwān al-ʿĀlī) which was the Governor's administrative office/court in Cairo. The writer's full …
Account of the Qodesh: payments to building workers, ca. 1045. Two fragments written in Arabic script, on vellum, the verso of a letter. Apparently, this …
In the Name of God, the merciful:
Record of the work done by the special masons….
.......... Monday, 13 Dhūʾl-ḥijja,
the 3rd day of…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal query and responsum in Arabic script. The query is written in a tiny handwriting with a thin pen, begins with the words alladhī dhakarahū …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an illness and Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī. Also mentions Shimʿon and "fulān" suggesting it could be a draft or something legal. On …
State document, possibly a decree. Suggests orders conferred upon an authority: hayʾat (?) l-muṭālaʿa wa-l-āʿmāl bihā. There is Arabic script in another not-so-elegant hand and …
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 …
Small receipt, for 42.5 dirhams. The scribe/jahbadh is Yūḥannā b. SYMLJ(?), responsible for all of ENA 3972 and many of the ENA 3971 receipts. Previous …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called 'my brother.' The content is not clear; mentions someone fearing death and mentions the capitation tax (jizya).
Fiscal account, probably a tax receipt, beginning with the waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr, probably a receipt of delivery to the bayt al-māl. Mentions several …
Lists in Judaeo-Arabic and pen trials of the Arabic alphabet that can be dated on the recto to the night of Simchat Torah of [5]586 …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Part of the text contains an epistolary exchange written in verses, full of expressions of heartsickness and longing. The extract …
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a medical prescription: the word sharāb (syrup) appears in the first line, and words for weights (dirham and ūqiyya) appear …
Letter from an unknown writer to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer rebukes the addressee for failing to write with his news. Everyone has …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Fatimid decree. The decree is from the period of al-Hafiz (1131–49) and mentions the congregational mosques of al-Ḥākim (in Cairo) and al-Ḥāfiẓ (it is not …
في المسجدين الجامعين الحافظي والحاكمي
فيضورك من تاخر جائهم فقد خرج
الامر الى الديوان بذكر ما عنده في ذلك
فاعلم هذا امر أمير المومنين ورسمه
In the two congregational mosques, the mosque of al-Ḥāfiẓ and the mosque of al-Ḥākim.
You will suffer if their arrival is delayed. For the order
Accounts in Arabic script with names and numbers arranged in neat columns. Needs examination. The space around this document has been filled with Judaeo-Arabic text …
Report to a Fatimid vizier. Dating: fifth/eleventh century. Khan published T-S K25.221 as the end of petition. Marina Rustow later found the join to the …
ولمولانا الوزير الأجل صفى أمير المؤمنين وخالصته ادام الله علاه وكبت اعداه
الراى العالي في ذلك ان شا الله
والحمد لله وصلواته على…
To my master, the mighty vizier, the sincere and intimate friend of the commander of the faithful, may God cause his exaltation to endure and crush…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Petition, draft, from an ex-government servant asking for work, presumably from a government official. From the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or possibly …
4 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
State document: End of a Fatimid petition or report from the period of al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or earlier.
Letter of appeal from a man, unknown location, to Musallam (or Musallama) Abū ʿAlī, the wakīl of Shams al-Dīn Ildakīz al-Birṭāsī, in Minyat Bāsik in …
المملوك الاصغر
عمران بن مهاجر
يقبل الارض بالمقر الشريف المولوي النبوي اعاد الله علينا
وعلى اولادنا بركاته واعتقادنا في شرفه وفي اعراقه
الز…
Fiscal account. Contains multiple entries, each marked with nuqila, “it has been copied.” Khan dates this document to the same period as T-S Ar.40.37, which …
Fatimid fiscal requisition for the dīwān al-jaysh, including information about an iqtā`. Contains a request for registration and at least one registration mark.
Acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 14th–16th century on paleographic grounds and based on the mention of the Dār Simḥa synagogue. A precise date …
State document: On verso, titulature in calligraphic script, including al-khilāfa al-fāṭimiyya, which is rare (maybe hapax) in documentary texts.
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter in Arabic script. The writer is in Aden. He reports that something of the addressee's is safe in his keeping. "If his (or your?) …
Account in large Arabic script. Saffron (zaʿfarān) appears. Weights are given in arṭāl and awāqī. Other items may be textiles with the unit of adhruʿ …