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Unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly a Fatimid or Ayyubid fiscal document (mentions words like "māl... al-dīwān... wa-kataba..."). On verso there's a curious drawing along …
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Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam a Jewish silk merchant (qazzāz) for the year 525 AH. See T-S AS …
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 …
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Ikhshīdid fiscal document; see tag. Dated 329 AH = 940/41 CE. The Hebrew reuse is the same hand as T-S NS 149.18 and possibly T-S …
Probably an Ikhshīdid fiscal document. See T-S NS 139.65 (PGPID 23643), belonging to the same Hebrew reuse. ASE
Petition in Arabic, twelfth-century Fatimid. A join for this fragment appears in the neighboring shelfmark ENA 3285.19r (Matthew Dudley). Both of these state fragments were …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably official correspondence. The document presumably describes a conflict resolution between two state officials, where both parties will respect each …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 27 Ramaḍān 405 AH (21 March 1015 CE). …
Registration mark on right
Registration mark on left
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Petition or report. In Arabic script. Quite faded. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions that a certain ʿāmil is more capable than somebody …
State document in Arabic script. Three lines and the last word of a fourth are preserved. Mentions titles of the judge Abū Isḥaq (al-qāḍī al-rashīd …
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A few words from a decree: "... al-muwaffaq Ḥusām al-Mulk Sanad al-Dawla..."
Eight rough drafts of a petition to the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir from the followers of Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably the end of 1041 (according to …
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Minute fragment of a state document referring to the caliph (al-Imām) al-M[ustanṣir?]. Nothing else is preserved.
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script, possibly a petition. Contains blessings for the addressee: "li-ʿālim(?) khallaṣahu(?) li-ʿālamīn(?) adāma Allāhu saʿdahū wa waṭṭada(?)... majdahu …
Small fragment of a state document: "... al-awḥad Fakhr(?) al-Mulk ʿUm[...]...." Reused on recto for Hebrew text (parts of Psalms 27:1?). (Information in part from …
Original use: One line probably from a state document (decree?): ليجري على عادته من ذلك بالطريق ال . . . .
Fragment of a Fatimid state document. Reporting that an official document belonging to an unnamed person (the -hū of kitābuhū) and dated 4 Rajab 523 …
Fragment of a fiscal register, probably. May mention the year 506 AH, which would be 1112/13 CE. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭim. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 …
Accounting document issued by "al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s. In Arabic script. Dated: …
Bifolium from a fiscal account ledger. One of the four pages is headed "makhzūma." Needs examination.
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. …
Recto: State document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text (recto) as well as a draft of a document of the qodesh (verso, see …
Upper part of a tax receipt, containing only the endorsements / administrative markings.
A Fatimid decree fragment reused for the canon of Andreas of Crete, a ninth-century text, here in later copy. (Information from Naïm Vanthieghem and Marina …
State correspondence (petition?) addressed to a higher official. In Arabic script. Very wide line spacing. 4 short lines are preserved. Phrases such as: التهاني(؟) اليه …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Blank verso. Perforated for binding. For the capitation tax of Hiba b. Yūsuf; same dossier as ENA 3936.3, T-S Misc.24.38.1–3, T-S AS …
Legal document (iqrār) concerning state finances: if the addendum on verso applies to recto (as it seems to, e.g., "المذكور باطنه"), an official named ʿAfīf …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic, likely fiscal. Mentions fūl (fava beans) and jullabān (vetch) and shaʿīr (barley).
Verso (original use): Petition. The bottom 10 lines are preserved. The petitioner puts himself forward for government employment: المحقين مرسوم بالعناية وقبول الامول(؟) في . …
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Verso (original use): A state report, most likely a draft, in Arabic script. Dating: 12th C because of report openings. Another report is written inversely …
State document, Fatimid period. Petition to a vizier of Al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh from a baker in Fusṭāṭ concerning a debt that he had incurred with …
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Abū ʿAbdallāh, the baker from Fusṭāṭ.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The benedictions of God and his ble…
Verso (original use): Fragment of a state document, a decree. Only the ends of three lines are preserved. One of the few legible words is …
Tax receipt for Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Mufaḍḍal in Fustat.
Likely an official report. Mentions al-Amīr ʿAfīf al-Dawla Mutawallī al-Bāb (=Ṣāḥib al-Bāb = al-Wazīr al-Ṣaghīr = 'head chamberlain'). The document is written in a very …
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, possibly a petition. The ends of ~14 lines are preserved. It has been cut and one piece has been glued …
Chancery document. 6 lines preserved from the bottom (including ḥamdala and ṣalwala: والحمد لله وحده وصاواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه المصطفى والد الطاهرين وسلم تسليما). …
Fiscal document, or account in Arabic script and Coptic numerals.
State receipt. Landscape layout. Begins "aʿṭā..." The payer is Mūsā b. Futūḥ, and it is for his capitation tax in Alexandria. Same cluster: T-S AS …
Minute fragment of a fiscal document, probably. Mentions numbers in the 500s in multiple entries and a kharājī year. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic or Hebrew jottings.
Verso (original use): Fragment from the bottom of a state document, containing ṣalwala and ḥasbala. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.
Tax receipt for Abū l-Surūr b. Faraj. Trigger: addā. Registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh bihi athiq', praise be to God in whom I trust.
Fragment of an official document, probably. (Tax receipt?) Little is preserved beyond the date: 12 Ramaḍān 634 AH = 9 May 1237 CE.
Fragment of a state (fiscal?) document. Needs examination.
Order to a lower official, specifying what is to be disbursed from the blessed grain storehouses (taʿrīf: mimmā yaḥtāj lak iṭlāquh min al-ahrāʾ al-mubār[aka... al-maʿmūra] …
Fragment of a state correspondence, probably a decree, 5 lines, bottom-left corner of the document with traces of paper decay. Mentions the day of movement …
Fatimid fiscal document, in Arabic script. Mentions two different bureaus: dīwan al-jihād al-miṣrī (line 2) and dīwān al-ḥubūs al-miṣriyya (line 7), probably mentioning a transfer …
Petition to an unnamed Ottoman official from Pinḥas son of Yūsuf. Dating: c. 1620s CE (per Hathaway), an estimate which is supported by the probable …
the witnesses, and concerning this slander, and that which was taken from [his] taxes [?] [ ]
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A register copy containing accounts of three arrests. The first detainee is Faẓāʾil (Naẓāʾir?) b. Ismaʿīl who was arrested by Sayyid al-Ahl, Riḍwān, and al-Muẓaffar …
Testimony in Arabic script probably meant to accompany an investiture petition from the gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda to the newly appointed caliph al-Mustanṣir billāh, listing …
(Having been requested,) we, all together and each separately,
(to deliver this testimony,) namely all those writing their witness and signing
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