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Petition addressed to a dignitary. In Arabic script. The petitioner may be named Abū ʿAlī b Abū Bakr al-Bazzāz (the clothier). None of the standard …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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 …
List of something. In Arabic script. On the recto, there is a note: "wa-ʿamiltu hādha l-fihrist fī hādha". On the verso, there is a mention …
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Possibly a receipt for the ḥikr (ground rent). Dated: 568 AH (=1172/73 CE). Mentions "one dirham" and "Dīwān al-Aḥbās." On verso there is a note …
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Ḥasan Ḥusayn b. Hibatallāh al-Ṣayrafī in Fustat. Dated: 4 Muḥarram 541 AH, which is 16 June 1146 CE.
Receipt for the capitation tax for Khalaf b. Yaʿqūb in Fustat. Dated: Looks like 551 AH, which would be 1156/57 CE if correct. See ENA …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū Sahl b. Khalaf in Fustat for the year 530 AH = 1135/36 CE.
Capitation tax receipt. For Eliyya b. Yehuda(?). Needs examination.
State document. Accounts from the central fisc. Begins: waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr.... Lower down refers to Mālik b. Ibrāhīm. In the bottom text block …
Small fragment of a (state?) document in Arabic script. Dated: 540s, 570s, or 590s AH.
Official looking accounts in Arabic script. Listing names and quantities, presumably of money.
Large bifolio of accounts in Arabic script. Might be fiscal. On recto, sections are headed by names of profession ("the dyers (al-ṣabbāghīn)... the millers (al-ṭaḥḥānīn)..."), …
Receipt for Muḥammad b. Yūsuf. Needs examination.
Probably a fiscal document or receipt, in Arabic script. Dated: 5 Dhū l-Qaʿda 545 H. Mentions total sum, "al-Jumla". Contains jottings in Hebrew script. Reminiscent …
Bottom two lines of an Arabic document. Might be a state document. The last line is a ḥamdala and ṣalwala, then "Allāhu ḥasbī wa-tawakkaltu ʿalayhi." …
Letter or state correspondence in Arabic script. Approximately 2 lines from near the beginning preserved. The text in between lines 1 and 2 may be …
Fiscal account, probably. Needs examination.
Recto: Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Fragment (lower left corner, portions of 4 lines preserved). The raʾy clause is partially legible in the last line: …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Might be official.
Folio from a fiscal accounting ledger. Four different entries, each with its own set of ʿalāʾim. The one on verso is dated [13 Dhū l-Ḥijja?] …
Fiscal accounting ledger recording the monthly ground rent (ḥikr) payments for properties in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ made by Manṣūr b. Musallam/Muslim for the years 503 and …
Brutal document. Probably to do with fiscality. Looks official and Mamluk-era based on paleographical grounds. Needs examination.
One side has the beginning of a letter written in Arabic script in a hasty scrawl. The other side has, in large letters in a …
Small fragment with remnants of ḥamdala and ṣalwala.
Document in Arabic script. Maybe a state document. The ends of two lines are preserved, including a partial date (the 14th of ...). Probably mentions …
Small official-looking receipt in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Official receipt for Abū l-Najm b. Ḥasan(?). Unclear for what (sugar?). Payment of 2 dinars? May be dated 520 AH. Needs examination.
Fragment of a petition. Portions of 8 lines are preserved, with different sizes of text and large gaps apparently dividing sections. Mentions "the Jews" and …
The original text is probably an (official?) account in Arabic script. There are also several later lines of poetry or aphorisms (ان يركب البغلات قوم …
Tax receipt? - needs examination.
Capitation tax receipt for Faraj b. Sālim a Jewish silk worker (qazzāz) in Fustat. Needs further examination.
Recto is probably a state report in Arabic script. Damaged and very difficult to read. Referring to people fleeing from a battle, al-Shām, Egypt, ʿAsqalān, …
Tax receipt of some kind. The payer is a Jewish man possibly named Bishr b. Bū l-[...]. Dated: 19 Ṣafar 553 AH = 22 March …
Tax receipt? Needs examination.
Petition or report, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Mentions: al-muslimīn... mutawallī al-balad... al-ghulām... ʿalā nafsihi l-ʿādila...lammā kānat hādha l-waqt... …
Makhzūma (official ledger of accounts). Probably related to military spending, mentions produce (al-ghallāt). In Arabic script. On verso, there are two validation notes (ṣaḥḥa dhālika...). …
Recto: Official receipt of some sort, with endorsements. There is a date: 443 AH? On verso there is a remnant of an earlier document, an …
Petition or formal letter concerning an iqṭāʿ, which was subsequently torn, and a related record written on verso. Dating: Probably Mamluk or early Ottoman era, …
Formal letter in Arabic script. Full of eloquent expressions of patronage. Unusual layout. Needs examination for content. Verso, is covered with writing in Arabic script …
Tax receipt?
Tax receipt? Mentions: ...al-yahūdī... bi-ḥudūr...
Tax receipt.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Fiscal account?
Extremely faded tax receipt(s)? Needs examination.