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Letter from a retired old Alexandrian merchant to a friend in Fustat. One side is a letter in Arabic script and the other side is …
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Possibly a tax receipt or an order of payment. Two endorsements, end of Dhū l-Qaʿda of the year 403 (?) 6x8 cm, verso blank. Item …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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 for tax dated 701 (1302)
Husband who intends to travel abroad allocates 20 dirhams per month, namely, five per week, for his wife, plus some wheat, the 20 dirhams to …
Abual-Faḍl, son of Ghazal the Alexandrian, came
And obligated himself with a qinyan of his own free will
And not under duress, (so) that…
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Census for the capitation tax. List of male persons with consecutive numbers over the names. First complete no. visible is 19, but some names are …
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כג כד
כה כו כז
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Letter from Yosef to Abū l-Fakhr asking him to help contest his obligation to pay the capitation tax of his brother, who was missing in …
Recto (secondary use): Late letter in Hebrew to R. Shelomo ha-Sofer from "your wife Dona Soro (=Sara?) and your daughters Reina and Raḥel and your …
Recto: Arabic-script document containing several sections. The lower part may be a tax receipt for a sum received from Zuhayr b. [...] from the ḍamān …
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Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: …
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Tax receipt issued for the ḍumanāʾ of Sinnūris against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 26 Jumādā I 405 (Khan: 22 Jumādā I …
Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 13 Jumādā II 403 AH (December 1012 CE). Written …
Recto: Bottom of a letter (official letter?) in Arabic script. Verso: Tax receipt issued by ʿArafāt(?) b. al-Naqīb the silk tax farmer (ḍāmin al-ḥarīr) to …
Letter fragment to a certain ḥaver ("... ba-sanhedrin gedolah...") describing the writer's financial distress. He also provides a recommendation for the bearer of the letter, …
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Sub-leasing agreement. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Monday, 8 Shevaṭ 4866 = 15 January 1106 CE. In which Musāfir b. ʿEli, the tax farmer of …
Testimony of what transpired before us, we the witnesses whose signatures are at the bottom of
this document. Thus it was: Musāfir b. ʿAlī,…
Fiscal document, top and bottom missing. Refers to kharāj payments for the year 437 kharājī (about five lines up from the bottom of the page); …
Sub-leasing agreement of a tax farm of silk production for the town of Bush and its surroundings, which was worth 3.5 dinars. Dated Tammuz 1458/ …
Letter from Avraham b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā, presumably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1075 CE, several months after the death of …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen, possibly in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Urging him to collect money to pay the capitation tax of …
Letter sent by the community of Fustat to a place in the Egyptian Rif, asking to help a Palestinian named Daniel, as the local people …
Letter fragment in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshuaʿ ha-Nagid regarding taxation, including the fee for the police (tarsīm). Mentioned in Goitein, "The Twilight …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 17 Adar II 1597 Seleucid = 15 March 1286 CE. The communal officials (khuddām) who collect the capitation taxes in …
Upper fragment: Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Alexandria to his uncle Abū l-Khayr Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī in Fustat. Dating: Friday, [probably 25] Nisan …
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Fiscal register (possibly equivalent to what al-Makhzūmī and Ibn Mammātī call a rūznāmaj). Contains multiple entries, each with a date and a sum. Each entry …
Letter from Manṣūr(?) b. [...] possibly to a younger relative Yūsuf (وينهي ان المملوك مشتاق الى خدمة ولده يوسف). In Arabic script. Looks like a …
Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Ḥakīm, in Sicily, to Ḥananya ha-Kohen Av Bet Din. Dating: ca. 1025 (unclear on what basis; Gil says ca. 1020, …
Letter by the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) to his brother in law, with a long narrative about the difficulties he encountered procuring …
Business letter from Avraham b. Farrāh, in Alexandria, to Yaʿaqov b. Avraham (and his sons Abū l-Ḥusayn Yūsuf and Abū Saʿīd Ibrāhīm), in Fustat. The …
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Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as Muwaffaq and Ḥasan the ghulām, goods such as honey, and expenses including "the government duty in Giza" …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Full of glimpses of interesting subjects. The writer complains about the heavy rain this winter; he mentions the customs tax (maks); the …
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).
Letter, probably a correspondence between two officials, in Arabic script, with the "inhāʾ" formula and tarjama. The sender reports (yunhī) on a man who owes …
List of several dozen donors to the public appeal (pesiqa) for the kharāj (here probably meaning capitation tax). Last line contains a reference to Abū …
Outstanding Pledges for the Poll Tax [of the Poor]—Paid.
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Pledges for ransom of captives. A pledge-drive (pesiqa) for the man from Antioch for the ransom of his children. In four columns divided further into …
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