State document: T-S Ar.39.481

State document T-S Ar.39.481

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T-S Ar.39.481
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Arabic

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Recto: Chancery exercises. The basmala appears twice, and one line begins, "Qāla Amīr al-Muʾminīn..." Verso: State document, Fatimid. Opens with a reference to an employee of the treasury (al-mustakhdam fī bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr) and possibly the date Ṣafar 548 AH, which would be 1153 CE, and then the funds of Dīwān al-Abwāb (see tag).

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Geniza
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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 39, f. 481; TS Arabic Box 39, fol. 481
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In PGP since 2019
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T-S Ar.39.481 1r

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1r

T-S Ar.39.481 1v

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1v
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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S Ar.39.481. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/20967/ (accessed November 14, 2026).