List or table: AIU XII.159

Description

Three unrelated fragments. Pages 1 and 2: A private account in (quite legible) Arabic, naming Yūsuf al-Yahūdī, Makārim al-Yahūdī, al-Qazzāz Abū l-Qāsim, and others. Written in at least two hands. Pages 3 and 4: An Arabic literary work. Pages 5 and 6: A curious fragment, in Arabic, of the printed minutes of some sort of meeting ([...] Diyāb al-Ḥānūtī and Ibrāhīm were in attendance at one). It could also be typewritten, but it does not appear that Arabic typewriters were commercially available in Cairo until 1904 (https://kerningcultures.com/kerned-and-cultured/arabic-typewriter). It dates from 1898 CE at the earliest to 1903 CE at the latest. It refers to "the hospital of the Tramway" (شفاخانة الترامواي), and the Cairo Tramway was inaugurated in 1896, and it refers to a recent report in the satire magazine "El-Houmara El-Minyati," which was published from 1898–1903 CE. Another possibility is that it could be lithographed and printed at the Būlāq Press (est. 1821) or its contemporaries.