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Petition to a Fāṭimid vizier concerning an allowance of a jurisconsult, which the petitioner used to receive from the auspicious office, which was to be …
May God make eternal the rule of the lofty and exalted seat, the mighty lord,(commander …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Petition to al-Mustanṣir in Arabic, preliminary draft (possibly also in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya), complaining about the closure of the Palestinian synagogue in …
Petition to a Fatimid dignitary regarding a theft of money. The archer Manṣūr b. Zakī al-Dawla (or: Rukn al-Dawla, which seems more likely given al-Maqrīzī's …
Petition from Abū l-Ḥasan b. Dāwūd to a Fatimid dignitary. The petitioner is a poor young man, whose father died destitute and left him only …
His servant and slave,
Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Dāʾūd
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the lofty, mighty, much-sought…
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 5 Rabīʿ I 404. Written one day after …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
State document: report to a high bureaucrat (with taqbīl clauses), written under the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir, 509/1115; in the Hebrew on verso, the date is …
Tax receipt issued for the mutawallī of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 21 Jumādā II 403 (). Tax year: …
Fragment of an official letter (upper left piece). In Arabic script. After the basmala one reads :ʾaṭāla llāh baqāhā wa-ʾadāma taʾyīdahā wa-ʿalāhā (l. 2), ʿārafahu …
1 نسخ
Decree to a lower official commanding him to retrieve bricks and everything belonging to the government from a certain location (a ruined mosque?); and from …
State document, Fatimid, probably a decree fragment, 4 lines. Begins with وعاد بنجابتهما وحسن in a dual tense suggesting that it was addressed to two …
عاد بنجابتهما وحسن
عاد بنجابتها وحسن
وله منتصبين وفيه مجدين وليتحققا
…… مسوولان عنها مطالبيـ[ن
Fatimid official report mentioning two messengers sent from the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira) to Damascus and also mentioning the Banū Hilāl. Probable join with ENA 3907.6 …
Report or petition to a Fatimid caliph or vizier, opening blessings only. Dating: ca. 1100–71. Cuts off after the taqbīl clause. Addressee may be al-Afḍal …
Petition in Arabic script concerning a governor, a bishop and monasteries. In the formal third-person address, the writer apologizes for sending the request in writing …
Report or petition in Arabic script. Mentioning finding someone suitable for a government job (khidma); Ibn Khalīfa from [...] al-Sharīf and Muʾnis al-Ṣiqillī; how the …
State document: fragment of a decree: [hādha a]l-sijill al-manshūr fī l-aʿmā[l]. . . . Reused for piyyutim.
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Very elevated register. Approximately 8 lines are preserved, but few details.
Fragment of a decree mentioning the funds of a dīwān in exchange for something. Late Fatimid (paleographic dating), same chancery hand as some of the …
Small fragment of a Fatimid decree containing a truncated closing formula and the beginning of the date (day of the week only — Thursday). Interesting …
Petition in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The sender is saying, to paraphrase, "I am your most devoted servant, so don't force me to …
Lower fragment, recto (original use): Petition, probably. In Arabic script, with gigantic space between the lines. Portions of the last few lines are preserved. Mentions …
Verso: State document, two lines preserved and one partial line above. Due to water damage or perhaps long-term pressure and ink transfer, the document bears …
Petition or report, Fatimid, fragment from near the beginning containing end of blessings, the taqbīl clause, and part of the qiṣṣa. Dating: 1100–71. Related to …
State document, in Arabic script. Fatimid petition. Mentions a state official by the name Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ḥadīd, a partnership, and some financial …
]من امره [ ]ـلى ما يجب ان[
]الشيخ ابو الحسن علي بن حديد ادام الله عزه[
]الحضرة الجليلة ادام الله سلطانها واحق…ك. ها
]ـناله وحمى .[]بها والد…
Brief official letter in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The addressee is to give the bearer Yūsuf and ʿInān(?) 100 silver pieces "for Minyat …
Report probably on military matters. In Arabic script. 6 lines preserved. Mentions a wall (al-ṣūr), the dispatching of a warship (ʿushārī), someone named Ibn al-Qaṣʿ(?), …
]ـول ان موالي (؟) ذلك (؟) الصور..
كان جرد عشاري عمارة فيه صاحب له على …
اصحابه ومن جملتهم بن القصع ووصلوا الى جبلة وخطر
بن القصع فيها وعاد ا…
Official correspondence (petition or report). Refers to Dīwān al-Shām (of Syria, cf. T-S AS 111.37). The beginnings of two lines are preserved: "al-mutaqaddim min jihat …
State or private petition in Arabic script. Fragmentary. Uses the terms murā`ī and mamālīk.
الذي ضمن المراعي بالـ[
ويلاذ به المماليك و[
]رقل بالمماليك وحـ[
ولهم ثلثة سنين يجادلو[
] والابعاد(؟) التي يجب عليها
ـ]ـر على الممال…
Petition in Arabic, twelfth-century Fatimid. The petition is addressed to a military general at the time of al-Mustaʿlī or al-Āmir. The petitioner is most likely …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
[صلوات الله وبركاته وافضل تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستعلي بالله امير المؤمنين وعلى ابائه الطاهرين]
واب…
Recto: Fragment of an official state correspondence, in Arabic script. Has wide line-spacing, diacritical dots, and diacritical marks, with iḥmāl markings. Mentions a sijill and …
State document, fragment, in a chancery hand, mentions the dīwān al-amwāl. The duality of the noun "aʿdāʾhuma" (line 3) suggests that it is addressed to …
Fiscal document. Multiple entries. Mentions: the receipt (wurūd) and expenditures (mā dufiʿa) of large sums of money; slaves (khadam); people such as Abū Bakr, ʿĪsā …
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.
A few words from a decree, probably Fatimid. There are multiple notes underneath in different hands. The one on the left says "let it be …
]ـها دماعه المشار
Fatimid state report from a lower official to the caliph or other high official(s), including raʾy clause, ḥamdala and ḥasbala. Only the last two lines …
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 = …
Fatimid official correspondence. Addressed to al-Mawqif al-Ashraf (likely the caliph himself, as in ENA 3974.4 (PGPID 11702)) and to the qāʾid ʿIzz al-Dawla. Mentions the …
State document(s) concerning taxation. Both the left column of recto and the only column on verso begin "khidma(?) rafaʿahā Ṣadaqa b. Makārim al-jahbadh. . . …
Recto: Petition in Arabic script. Much of it is vague and allusive. Refers to the addressee as "al-mawlā" and refers multiple times to the sulṭān. …
Petition, Fatimid period. Written and signed by a stipendiary of the state in his own hand: Aḥmad b. Ḥamza b. Aḥmad al-Umrāʾī (the reading of …
المملوك
احمد بن حمزة بن احمد الامراي (الاعرابي؟)
رقعة ما نسختها
بعد الدعا
المملوك يقبل الارض بالمقام المعظم النبوي ضاعف الله انواره
Original use: Two lines from a petition or report about property rights, mentioning an alley (zuqāq) in Fustat and something under the name of al-qāḍī …
فـ[ـسطاط مصر بزقاق بني نكير بحافة جلنار يعرف بالقاضي السد[يد
]ـها …. في موضعها ومن حقوق كلية العبد كوم كان منها قديما صفية(؟) مرقل(؟)
…
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. On verso there are accounts of some sort (mentioning Manṣūr b. [...]), unclear if this …
Tax receipt in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ for the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Reused on verso for …
Recto (secondary use): tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 9 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403. Measurements: …
Petition or legal document from a Jew on behalf of the Jewish community to the government. The petitioner's name appears in the lower right margin. …
يقبلون الارض
الايام متع لله بوجوده (الايام؟)
ويهود وبينهم وبين جماعة دعاوي شرعية و
لهم خلاص الا باللباب (=بالباب) العالي وسمو الهم من الصـ[د…
Black ink (original use): ِFragment of a state document, fiscal related. At the top: thabata ʿindī jamīʿ mā nuṣṣa wa-shuriḥa fīhi... wa-kataba Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm …
Official salary receipt issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria. Dated: Jumādā II 1239 AH (1824 CE). In the introduction to her …
Deposits
from the hand of the exemplar of the great and support of
the notables, of power and renown, his excellency
our master the noble…
Recto: fiscal document or state memorandum mentioning a ḍamān and the name Maʿālī b. Yūnā (?). Reused for a tax receipt issued for 402H written …
Verso: tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on a dyeworks (maṣbagha) in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Undated. The date on the receipt, …
Verso: Tax receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 14 Ṣafar 404. Measurements: …
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Multiple registration marks such as 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih', praise be to God for his …