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End of an official letter in Arabic script. "...fīmā yaḥtāj ilayh..." then a ḥamdala and ṣalwala. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ probably by the same scribe …
No Scholarship Records
Original use: Official letter or decree in Arabic script. Written in large letters wide space between the lines. The ends of 8 lines are preserved. …
Official letter: report or petition. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. The sender expresses his gratitude to the addressee, who may be referred to as al-mawlā …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū Saʿd b. Bū ʿAlī the Jew in Fustat for the year 557 AH = 1161/62 CE if read …
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 …
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Recto: Petition, fragment. Perhaps involving the plunder and occupation of a house (....al-bayt wa-nahabū... ikhrājuhum ʿanhu... fa-mā li-l-mamlūk illā marāḥim al-mawlā...). The form of the …
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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, …
State document in Arabic script. Mentions Arslān b. Khuṭlukh of the 'old' Ḥāfiẓī regiment (ṭāʾifat al-ḥāfiẓiyya al-qudamāʾ"); the estate/town (ḍayʿa) known as Sumusṭā in Middle …
].بو الارسلان بن خطلخ من طايفة الحافظية القدما
] واجبة في الضيعة المعروفة بسمسطا من الصعيد الادنا
على حكم الاستمرار بها..وفي السنة
من…
State document, in Arabic script. Most probably an internal correspondence. Mentions a Qāḍī Ḥammād b, ʿAlī and also Amīr al-Muʾminīn in l4. Reused for Hebrew …
Receipt for someone's capitation tax in Fustat. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE).
Recto: State document beginning as follows: هذا كتاب من عبد الله ووليه الامام المنصور ابي علي الآمر باحكام الله امير المؤمنين صلوات الله عليه وعلى …
Bifolio from a fiscal accounting ledger. A jarīda (as mentioned on verso). Many entries preserved, several of which mention terms related to iqṭāʿs. Needs examination.
Likely a small fragment of a decree. A few enormous words in Arabic script. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
Official-looking account in Arabic script.
State document, possibly a decree. Suggests orders conferred upon an authority: hayʾat (?) l-muṭālaʿa wa-l-āʿmāl bihā. There is Arabic script in another not-so-elegant hand and …
Fragment of official correspondence concerning the administration of Upper Egypt. The first four lines are mostly preserved. "It is necessary to write a noble letter …
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Tax receipt, probably. Cramped and difficult to read. Mentions [...] b. Ṣāliḥ, the ḍāmin of the dīwān.... Needs examination. On verso the beginning of a …
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 …
A few words in Arabic in a chancery hand ("the order of this [...] arrived..." / وصل امر هذا), possibly from a state document or …
Fragment from the right side of an official-looking account.
Verso (original use): Letter, maybe official state correspondence. Begins "ʿaraḍa hādhihi l-mukā[taba]...." Mentions Jaʿfar b. Fattāh, only the beginning formula with honorifics is preserved. Ends …
بسم الله [الرحمن الرحيم
عرض هذه المكـ[ـاتبة(؟)
الاجل اطال الله بقاه[
وسموها وسناها و…[
جعفر بن فتاح اجل[
…………………
و..[
…
Official Ottoman-era accounts concerning the produce of the city of Lajjūn (qāʾima mubāraka in shāʾ allāh taʿālā bi-muqāsamat al-ghilāl al-mawjūda bi-madīnat al-Lajjūn al-makhdūma(?) al-dīwān al-saʿīd …
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
State document, bottom fragment, in Arabic script. "الذي لا يقدر فيهم على غيره... ومحاسبته على استقبال سنة خمسـ[...على ما استخرجه واحضر ما". The phrase "wa-muḥāsabatuhu …
Draft of a petition to the caliph al-Ḥākim, with tarjama and opening formulae. Recto contains a Hebrew legal deed (see separate entry). From Hibat Allāh …
بسم للهّ الرحمن الرحیم
بسم
العبد المملوك هبة الله بن
ابو منصور الیھودي
صلوات للهّ وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وأفض…
Fiscal document fragment, in Arabic script. One phrase preserved (من ذي القعدة), part of a larger register. See PGPID 39403.
Verso: Fragmentary document, in a chancery hand. Typical closing formula of a state document "في ذلك ان شاالله". The second line could be a date. …
Probably a state document (or documents). Text unclear, but contains a date: 432? Verso l. 1 refers to the amir Sayf al-Khilāfa.
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition or other formal state correspondence. The beginnings of 8 lines are preserved, mostly consisting of honorifics for the …
شعبان بن عبد الله ابو بكر الكرمي
محمد بن محمد التركماني
بسم الله الـ[ـرحمن الرحيم]
صلوات الله وبركاته ونو[امي زكواته وافضل سلام…
Verso: Fragment with one line of text in Arabic in an elegant scribal hand, from a state document: على تقرر ذلك وينبغي ان. Medieval-era. The …
Fragment of a Fatimid fiscal account, probably. Two entries are preserved. The phrase "ʿan al-mamʿūl fīhā" is preserved in both. There is a number (433?) …
Verso (original use): Document in Arabic. Tax receipt? The word 'mablagh' appears a few times. There may be a year in l. 2. Needs examination. …
Recto: notes or draft of a treatise, stating ‘he created the world with everything in it’, and mentioning infinite power (jabarūt), the epithet ḏū l-jalāl; …
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, …
Original use: Small fragment from the bottom of a Fatimid decree. Dating: No later than 1077 CE.
State document, in Arabic script. May be a petition. The only phrase preserved is al-mamlūk muqaddam al-juyūsh (commander in chief).
المملوك مقدم الجيوش
Verso: Fragment of an Arabic state document. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
Fiscal document, probably, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
First line of an official letter. Begins, "The noble letter/document (al-kitāb al-mukarram) [reached] the slave of your excellence...." On verso there is a different Arabic-script …
Petition from an official. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century (this can be narrowed if the person named is known from chronicles). Mentions an amir …
[ ] . . . عنده لاحد المماليك يسمى علم الدين سنجر المحمود[ي]
مبلغ وصـ[و]لات في ثمن قنده المبيع من شونه وهو
الف واربعمائة . . . . . .…
Tax receipt for the Jewish man Yūsuf b. Daʾūd for his capitation tax in Fustat. The date is given twice (51[.]?).
Petition. In large Arabic script, wide space between the lines, in a chancery hand. This is a small fragment from the lower right corner of …
Draft of Fatimid state correspondence. Addressed to the vizier ("ḥaḍrat al-wizāra") concerning either the appointment of an amir in Yemen, or written by an amir …
[ سيد]ي الاجل
ولما [[تحقق]] عرف المملوك حسن النية وجميل الراي وشريف الاصطناع
رغب الى مكارمة حضرته السامية زاد الله في جلالت…
[ ] my most glorious lord
When the slave [[established]] learnt of the good intention, the kind view and the noble patronage,
he desired to sho…
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Recto: One or two damaged lines of Arabic text from a large state document, possibly a decree. Requires further examination.
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom.
A few words possibly from a state document in Arabic script. "... al-murtaḍā al-kāshif..."
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū ʿAlī b. Faraj(?) a Jewish goldsmith (ṣāʾigh) in Fustat for the year [50?]8.
Recto: State document. Accounts regarding agrarian administration submitted by Boqṭor b. Sisinne, a Copt, the overseer (al-khawlī) in Badsā (in the province of al-Giza), for …
Document in Arabic script. Probably a small piece of a state document, or perhaps a legal document due to the mention of witnesses.Contains an oddly …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.