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Unidentified document in Arabic script. Might be legal or official. Ḥamdala and ṣalwala in the second-to-last line. It was torn and reused for a different …
No Scholarship Records
Receipt of some sort: "afrada Ibrāhīm [...] al-maṭbakh..." Needs examination.
Recto: Small fragment from official correspondence. The ends of three lines are preserved. Refers to a "matter" (qaḍiyya) twice and maybe a problem (mushkila). Verso: …
Fiscal document. Multiple entries. Mentions: the receipt (wurūd) and expenditures (mā dufiʿa) of large sums of money; slaves (khadam); people such as Abū Bakr, ʿĪsā …
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State document, in large oversized chancery script, two words. From a gigantic decree.
Probably a state document in Arabic script. Only a few partial lines are preserved on both recto and verso.
Receipt ("tadhkira bism...") for the capitation tax of Maʿrūf b. Yahūdhā al-Yahūdī, an indigo merchant (nīlī) and perfumer (ʿattār), in Fustat. The registration mark / …
State document, in Arabic script. Pٰrobably the beginning of a decree with a basmala. "mā rāḥ ḥaẓẓuk fī l-ʿūlyā bi-muntaqiṣ", a variant of the poem …
Petition, in Arabic script. Dated: 12th C Ayyubid period. A group of poor workers (ṣunnāʿ) petition the Caliph and remind him of his promise of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
المماليك يقبلو الارض بالمجلس [الكريم وينهون ان … ؟]
واهلك اعاديه وحساده [
من جملة صناع مقامه الكريم و[
بانه ل…
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Verso: fragment from an Arabic-script document in large characters, with wide line spacing. Possibly a state document. Reused by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, thus the dating …
Recto (as conserved; secondary inscription): tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 5 Ramaḍān 403 …
Registration mark on right
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Tax receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 7 (?) [month not preserved] …
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Accounts of some kind in Arabic script. Possibly official. The format resembles that of the Ikhshīdid fiscal documents. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ in …
Two copies of a draft of blessings for the caliph (amīr al-muʾminīn). In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the beginning of a petition: [[אלאמיר אלמופק]] אמיר אלמומנין במא …
Two official documents, the first (22a) dated Tripoli, 15 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 884 H. [1480], the second (22b) dated 9 (?) Ramaḍān 907 H. [1502].
A few words from a state document in Arabic script, mentioning the name Saʿīd (or likely urging someone to exert effort (fī dhālik ijtihād) to …
Receipt in Arabic script for a payment by Mūsā Naʿīm, dated 1824/25 CE (the end of Muḥarram 1240H). The receipt was issued by the state …
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat for the Jewish oculist (al-yahūdī al-kaḥḥāl) Makārim b. Isḥāq, known from several other documents. Dated: 637 AH = …
Fatimid state document, perhaps a petition (...min iḥsānik...). On verso, Hebrew literary text.
Fragment of a letter from Khuṭlukh al-Afḍalī to his 'brother.' On recto only the beginnings of ~5 lines including the basmala are preserved; the address …
Fiscal document. Needs examination.
Beginning of a petition to the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim.
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State decree. Three fragmentary lines from the end of a chancery decree, probably addressed to a provincial official, mentions majlis al-naẓar (refer al-Qalqashandī, Ṣubḥ al-Āʿshā …
End of an official document (letter? petition?). Likely a date in the penultimate line: 4[..] AH.
Recto: Official receipt of some sort, with endorsements. There is a date: 443 AH? On verso there is a remnant of an earlier document, an …
Top of a petition or letter in Arabic script.
Tax receipt. Fatimid-era. Short. Granted to a certain Yūsuf. Amounts and date and scribe are not immediately clear. Needs further examination.
State petition regarding a Maghribī Jewish trader caught drinking with a Muslim woman and imprisoned. Cuts off right before the request: there arrived from the …
State document. An order from the military administration: "min Majlis al-Ḥarb al-Saʿīd." There is an ʿalāma, scribbled out, between lines 1 and 2 of the …
Petition (formula: al-mamlūk yuqabbil al-yad al-ʿāliya), 1106H (?)
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, …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
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 …
Petition? In Arabic script. Small fragment. The phrase "ilā khidmatihī" is legible in the first line.
Bottom of a decree, probably. "...[al-madh]kūra ʿalā farāʾīd Allāh ʿazza wa-jalla..." Then a ṣalwala at the bottom. Reused for piyyut on verso.
Receipt for the capitation tax of a Jewish silk worker (qazzāz) in Fustat. Dated: looks like 524 AH = 1129/30 CE. Needs further examination.
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Probably accounts, possibly fiscal/state. Might mention ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Reused for a Hebrew literary text. (Information from CUDL)
Small, official-looking receipt. Beginning 'afrada....' For ʿImrān b. al-Riṣāfī(?). Same payer: T-S AS 176.438 and T-S AS 176.439.
Two lines of a state document in an elegant scribal hand. Probably a Fatimid decree. Phrases: ما اجاب اليه امير المومنين . . . ووفقك …
Letter in Arabic script. Chancery report? 4 lines preserved. Very faded. Reused on recto for prayers for ʿAravit and Minḥa with Judaeo-Arabic heading. (Information from …
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…
The end of one line from a state document in Arabic script (decree vs. petition vs. report). Quite faded. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Recto: The beginnings of 4 lines of an official report in Arabic script. "When I found the districts in the aforementioned state..." (wa-lammā alfaytu l-nawāḥī …
Tax receipt for a Jewish man Bū Sahl(?) b. Khalaf for his capitation tax in Fustat for the year 535 AH = 1140/41 CE.
Small fragment of a state document, probably a report. Refers to a military man: "min rijāl al-ʿasākir al-muʾayyada." Verso may be a distinct document.
State document, in Arabic script. Petition fragment containing the "rayy" clause.
Decree. Portions of two lines are preserved: ...bi-sumuwwi l-ʾamri... qabla l-tadbīri(?).... Reused for Hebrew poetry/liturgy.
Petition to al-Mustanṣir in Arabic, preliminary draft (possibly also in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya), complaining about the closure of the Palestinian synagogue in …
Recto: Fiscal document, minute fragment thereof, from the left margin. Dated 27 Ramaḍān, "aẓẓāma--llāhu barakatuhā". Verso: possibly second side of the same document; mostly blank …
Official-looking receipt. Mentions arṭāl Miṣr, the quantity of half raṭl, and the occurrence of the transaction/event in the presence of a judge (bī-ḥuḍūr al-Qāḍī al-ʿazīz).