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Petition from a Jewish man to a Muslim general (al-isfahsalārī > isfahsalār), possibly named Bahāʾ al-Dīn or Bahāʾ al-Dawla. Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: probably …
1 نسخ
Fragment of a letter about government business. In Arabic script. ". . . if he has it done by the jahbadh of the arsenal (al-ṣināʿa), …
فلو قام بذلك على يد جهبذ الصناعة لكان اصلح له ورايها الموفق
وبن بو الغنائم فقد سالته احضار التحرير المختص بالديوان المفرد
وحضوره ايضا اتف…
State document, in Arabic script. Petition fragment, asking for a rescript. Preserves the closing invocations and the inhāʾ formula.
Tax receipt probably from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb; only bottom part preserved. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 7 …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
State document(s), in Arabic script. The verso is probably a petition, mentioning a state official by the name Ḥusām al-Dīn Asad al-Dawla wa-...... The recto …
Petition to the Fatimid ruler Sitt al-Mulk. Dating (Rustow): 411–14/1021–24. In which the otherwise unknown Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan complains that a local amīr has confiscated …
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb, Fatimid. One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih.
State document, probably. Dated: Rabīʿ II 425 kharājiyya, which is roughly a year or two prior to 1034 CE. Mentions some sums of dinars and …
العز لدين[الله
] سبع بقين من شهر ربيع الاخر
]... … لسنة خمس وعشرين واربع ماىة الخراجية
]. الى سعادة وصواب خدام المظلة
]عن خازنهما …
Fatimid decree. Four lines preserved. Dated: 549 AH = 1154/55 CE. Four lines preserved. Seems to be regarding the administration of the dhimmīs who live …
Fragment of a draft (?) of a petition opening with the taqbīl clause repeated twice (once in isolation) and followed by the caliphal honorific titles: …
المملوك يقبل الارض اما
….المملوك يقبل الارض امام المقام النبوي الطاهري(الظاهري؟) المعظم الشريف
ضعف الله انواره واعلى لندامته/…اميره(؟) وبالم…
Petition, late Fatimid period given the blessings on a vizier, from a certain Ibn Mūsā (no forename given) concerning a Jew named (2) Bū l-Faraj …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Official letter in Arabic script. 4 lines preserved, wide line spacing. Reused for legal documents in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate entry). Seems to be a report/petition …
… and fortune in …
I unsheathed an intent to serve in [...] the mis[sion](?) …
[from] on top of pulpits, and spreading the kernels of th…
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Only one line and a couple words from the line below are preserved. "irtifāʿ mā. . . lā yadillu ʿalayhi. …
Recto: Fragment of a Fatimid state report. Mentions: "the blacks (al-sūdān) and those who accompany them from the nomads (al-jawwāla) and the community (al-jamāʿa). . …
Petition to a Fatimid vizier, opening lines only, addressed to "my lord the most lofty vizier, companion and loyal adherent of the commander of the …
Report or petition fragment, addressed to a higher state official regarding the matters in southern Upper Egypt, contains the taqbīl clause towards the end. The …
للحضور صحبة النايب مقتفي؟ الرجال…. ريب؟
وعبد الغني وان رفعت الرخصة لهم وكثر طمعهم وقل بذاك عدالتهم؟
والمملوك يشكر الانعام عليه بخروج الا…
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, interspersed with Arabic script in the wide spaces what seems like a draft of a letter or just …
]وسعادته لمضافرته ومطالبته؟
]افدته يعزمه مظهر/بعزمه يظهر لي وله قواها
] للنجاج باولاها واخراها
] يعمل عليها وصدره حالا بع…
Verso: Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb with a registration mark al-ḥamdu li-llah ʿalā niʿamih. The name of the jahbadh is …
Recto is a fiscal account (either reused for the tax receipt or was later reused) with multiple streams of accounts, recording payments for ten days …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 25 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. The verso, written before …
Petition (or maybe a report) from Ibrāhīm al-Naqīb to ʿAbd al-Karīm. The sender repeatedly asserts that he serves as the representative or head (naqīb) of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
المملوك
ابرهيم النقيب
يقبل الارض وينهي بين يدي
الشيخ عبد الكريم بان…
الى العلم ان المملوك عمل نقيب المجالس في
Report (or petition?). Line 3: الراي العالي باطلاقه لك على. Line 4: ان شا الله عليه الراي. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in …
مما يطلق عن الديوان الابواب…بمصر
مائة وخمسة وخمسون دينارا
ومما يطلق من الديوان الاموال (الابواب؟) بالقاهرة
سبعة وسبعون دينارا
ويخرج …
Top part of a receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Date: Not preserved. Probably written before …
Petition, or at least a formal-looking letter, in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner).
Beginning of a Fatimid petition, in Arabic script. Reused for a tax receipt on verso.
Report to an Ayyubid official mentioning the current ruler al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (the First, d. 1218) and his recently deceased son Shams al-Dīn Mamdūd (aka Mawdūd). …
A part of a decree from the court of the Fātimid Caliph al-Ẓāhir, protecting the rights of the Qaraite communities in Palestine against Rabbanite encroachment, …
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Mentions Qāḍī l-Quḍāt and the sender complains of his poverty. Reused on recto for a vidduy in Hebrew.
State document, in Arabic script. Dating: probably Fatimid. Not a lot is preserved but the document seems like an internal government memorandum mentioning accounts and …
1 ترجمة
State document, two fragmentary lines in Arabic script. Not much is preserved but what remains reads as prayers and invocations.
State document, in Arabic script. Decree, interspersed with Hebrew text on recto and verso. Only two legible words are preserved.
State document, probably Fatimid. Closing formula of a decree, possibly, or another state document written in a thick pen. The preserved text is a ṣalwala …
State document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary.
State document, in Arabic script. Petition fragment containing the "rayy" clause.
Two lines of a letter or petition in Arabic script (li-l-sayyid bin al-[...]).
Official accounts from "al-Ṣāfīyya bi-wilāyet al-Gharbīyya" (מוסה נעים צראף אלכזינה באסם אלצאפייה בולאיית אלגרבייה), an institution related to the provincial Treasury (כזינה). Dated Ṣafar 1247 …
1 مناقشة
Middle part of a tax receipt in the hand of Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, presumably issued for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. This is one of …
State-issued order of payment from the Treasury of Silk Looms in Alexandria. Date: 14 Jumāda II 1237 AH (1820 CE). A total of 150 kuruş …
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions 20,000 irdab of wheat. A tentative reading of the first line could be "al-Malik Muʿizz al-Dawla". If the …
Original text: State/fiscal document. The years 534 and 535 AH are specified in multiple places, paired with sums of money at the top. Refers to …
سنة اربع وثلثين وخمس ماية سنة(؟) ستين منها(؟)
سنة خمس وثلثين وخمس ماية ماية …….خمس ماية
علي بن افضل بالخليج
وخروج التوقيع العا…
State document, probably a petition. Contains a taqbīl clause and closing lines starting with a ḥamdala and ending with a ṣalwala. Verso has jottings in …
Bottom of a tax receipt from the dossier of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb, written by Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 11 Muḥarram 405. The verso …
Order of payment. In Arabic. Dated 7 Rabīʿ II 1239 AH, which is 1823 CE. Issued by the Dīwān Anwāl li-Maṣliḥat al-Ḥarīr, an institution in …
Draft of copy of a petition in Arabic script addressed to al-Malik al-ʿAzīz Sayf al-Islām Ṭughtakīn, the second Ayyubid amir of Yemen (and brother of …
Petition from a Jewish man to a dignitary. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Opens with two lines of grand titles for the presumably …
بسم الله] الرحمن الرحيم
المملوك يقبل الارض امام الحضرة السامية الاجلية] القضائية السعيدة الماجدة الامينية
ذ]خيرة(؟) الدين جمال الروسا صـب…
Presumably a draft of a letter of appointment for a scribe to the central chancery. ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Muḥammad al-Kātib is appointed as a scribe …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition to a lower official. "Mamlūk al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiyya al-ajalliya". Only beginning formula preserved. Mentions khufarāʾ (the village protectors).
State document, extremely fragmentary. The name of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir is written "al-Mustanṣir Billah Amīr al-Muʾminīn."
State document, probably a fragmentary petition, in Arabic script. Contains a partial taqbīl clause and a name which may read as "al-Ṣāli[ḥī al-Najmī", the penultimate …
Tax receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 7 (?) [month not preserved] …