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Recto: Ayyubid or Mamluk-era fiscal account. In Arabic script. Extremely neat and well-preserved. Mentions Dār al-Malik al-Muẓaffar and al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ. Needs examination.
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Tax receipt, sixth century AH. Trigger: addā. Written by and for the same people as ENA 3944.4 (PGPID 10466), but registered and authenticated by different …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 25 Ramaḍān 405. Amount of payment: one-half dīnār. …
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State document in Arabic script, the ends of three lines are well-preserved. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Tax receipt. Fatimid-era. Short. Granted to a certain Yūsuf. Amounts and date and scribe are not immediately clear. Needs further examination.
Official correspondence in Arabic script, addressed to a superior. Dating: Mamluk period, based on the migration of the tarjama to the right margin. The sender's …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Mūsā b. Futūḥ, in Alexandria (bi-thaghr al-Is[kandariyya?]).Same cluster: T-S AS 178.69 (PGPID 36898) T-S AS 180.22 (PGPID 37373) T-S …
Upper fragment: Internal state/fiscal report. Dating: unclear, maybe 12th–14th century. After the basmala, opens with abbreviated taqbīl and inhāʾ formulae. Conveying information about a man …
Recto: Leviticus 23:9-17. Verso: official Arabic document concerning monetary matters. (Information from CUDL)
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: …
Recto: Fragment of a letter in a chancery hand; official correspondence? May mention al-faqiḥ al-wakīl ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn. Verso: Fragment of a …
State document. Dating: early 13th century (Ayyubid period). Petition from Khuyalāʾ b. Ḥasan and Abū l-Jaysh to the caliph al-ʿĀdil regarding an iqṭāʿ in the …
الناصرية
خيلا بن حسن وابو الجيش
بن احمد
بسم الله ال…
Khuyalāʾ ibn Ḥasan and Abū al-Jaysh
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave kisses the ground before the…
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Recto: Small fragment of a state document. The ends of four or five lines are preserved, very damaged. Reused on verso for faded Hebrew characters, …
Small fragment (upper left corner) of an official receipt. Might refer to dyeing (ṣabgh).
State-issued receipt, in Arabic script. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 18 Ṣ[afar] 1236 AH (1820 CE), the ligature before ص in the date is شهر. Barakāt b. …
Draft of a petition, in Arabic script. Dating: probably late due to the placement of "mamlūk" after the basmala. The addressee is mentioned as "al-majlis …
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State document, in Arabic script. Fragment from the beginning of a petition. Dating: likely Ayyubid or Mamluk.
Recto: Six lines from a formal Arabic petition, probably late Fatimid. The second line reveals the name of an official: "...al-salāṭīn khāliṣat amīr al-muʾminīn Asad …
له اجمعين (؟) شهد (؟) الدين (؟)……فخر…
والسلاطين خالصة امير المؤمنين اسد الدين ثبت الله
مجده وضاعف سعده واهلك شانئه وضده وقرن
بالتوفيق ح…
Fragment of a petition from a woman, in Arabic script. She complains about her poverty and the vicissitudes of fate, but it seems she has …
بعد كلمة والتعرف وكتب……………….عبده
تشتكي ياخي(؟) فيه من قلة ذات اليد وامور الزمان هي ومن معها اطال ذلك[
الله تعالى وحضرته السامية وكانت حض…
Official-looking letter(s) in Arabic script. Very damaged.
Decree, fragment, reused for Hebrew piyyut/poetry. The preserved text reads 'and on his brother' - wa ʿalā akhīhi.
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). …
Tax receipt in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ for the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Reused on verso for …
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 …
Small receipt or similar type of document.
Verso: Fatimid decree fragment. Three words preserved. (MR)
Verso: Petition or report to the Fatimid vizier al-Afḍal (r. 1096–1121) regarding a government appointee reporting for duty or fulfilling an order. Including a raʾy …
State document(s). Verso seems to be the bottom of a petition with a reference to "ṣadaqa ʿan mawlānā" followed by a raʾy clause and ḥamdala. …
State document, in Arabic script. Heavily blurred. The left halves of 7 lines are preserved (which seem to comprise the entire document). Opens with formulaic …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script. The layout and hand are reminiscent of fiscal documents, but the headers (qaṣṭīr = qaṣdīr = tin, caraway, mastic, …
Official-looking receipt for Abū l-ʿIzz b. Bū ʿAlī. Unclear for what. Landscape layout. Needs further examination. See also T-S AS 180.126 and T-S AS 181.71.
Probably fiscal document(s). Needs examination.
Official document of some sort. May be headed "makhzūma." Above that, there is an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi rabbi al-ʿālamīn). Refers to money exchange (ṣarf) and …
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Mubārak b. Ibrāhīm Ibn Sabrā (a relatively well-known character from Judaeo-Arabic Geniza documents). Same cluster: ENA 3953.1, …
State document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary but from what is preserved, it is indicative that the petition is addressed to a caliph due to the …
قيوله ويتلو خدمته مـ[
من الرقعة والتوقيع والجواب على[
في ارجـ[..؟] الثمن عنه على العادة كونه لم يبلغ
الحكم فسبوني عليه وطالع بذلك
امتثالا ل…
Minute fragment with a few Arabic words preserved on each side, either from a legal or official document. AA
State correspondence with signs of being reused for a book binding. The beginnings of four lines are preserved: خدمته ان المملوك قد سير لك... مملوكه …
Recto (secondary use): Tax receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 10 Ṣafar …
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State document, administrative accounts. The right halves of 14 lines are preserved. Mentions someone's servants (wa-ghilmānuhū), half of something, and installments (aqsāṭ). The months Ramaḍān, …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam in Fustat for the year 508(?) AH. Needs further examination. Same cluster: T-S AS 176.120, …
Tax or provisional receipt. Mention of silver (waraq) and the month Jumād al-Awwāl on verso.
Verso contains part of a large and beautiful ḥamdala and ḥasbala, likely from the bottom of a Fatimid decree.
Petition to Saladin from ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Yaḥyā, the Jew, a resident of Malīj, in the province of al-Gharbiyya, in the Delta. Dating: ca. 564–89 …
المملوك
عبد الباقى بن يحيى اليهودى
المقيم بلمليج
…
Bifolio from a register containing multiple entries recording fiscal payments, including name of the taxpayer and amount paid. Registration marks visible. Could be identified as …
Probably a fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Mentions various dates and the name ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Reused on the …
One side: State document. Only a few words are preserved from very widely spaced lines ("...ʿalā l-ḥukm ʿalā..."). The text on the other side is …
Small fragment of fiscal accounting, probably. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Document in Arabic on verso, medieval-era. Only two partial lines are visible but the line spacing and scribal hand point to the likelihood that this …
Small fragment of a state document. On recto refers to "... (Dīwān al-?)aḥbās bi-l-Baḥriyya fa-baʿatha warāhu min...." On verso refers to something pertaining to al-Malik …
Petition to a state official. In Arabic. After a taqbīl, the addressee is greeted with many titles ("al-majlis al-ʿādilī al-sayfī al-nāṣirī(?) al-kāmilī al-hādī"). The petitioner …