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Probably a fiscal document or receipt, in Arabic script. Dated: 5 Dhū l-Qaʿda 545 H. Mentions total sum, "al-Jumla". Contains jottings in Hebrew script. Reminiscent …
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Verso (original use): Official-looking document in Arabic script. Maybe a receipt. Mentions "al-kharāj al-muwāfaqa li l-khidma al-wizāra." Needs further examination.
The end of one line from a state document in Arabic script (decree vs. petition vs. report). Quite faded. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Unidentified document in large Arabic script. Fiscal account? Reused on both recto and verso for Hebrew liturgical text (three different hands).
State document. Petition to a Fatimid ruler in which the writer asks to be exempted from the payment of his capitation tax (of 1 + …
ويقوم بالجزية الواجبة عليه ومبلغها فى السنة دينار واحد وثلث وربع ودرهم
وفي اكثر اوقاته يتعذر عليه تغليقها الى ان يتصدق له من اليهود اهل طائ…
He pays the poll tax that he is liable for, the annual amount of which is one dīnār, a third and a quarter, and one dirham.
At most times it is d…
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Fragmentary document, with huge line spacing, probably state document, late. The only readable word is "irdab", referring to the measure of grain. The preceding word …
Verso (original use): Beginning of a petition or letter to an official. Reused on recto for a tax receipt (see separate entry).
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
قد كان عبد الحضرة السامية الاجلية الشيخية الـ…. ـية ثبت اللـه مجدها
واهلك عدوها وضدها … على مشارفتها في يحا[ …
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Bifolio containing what look like fiscal accounts, in relatively narrow columns. Very difficult to read. Probably related to iqṭāʿ, mentions maqṭūʿāt on the verso. Dated …
Probably a report or official correspondence in Arabic script. In a chancery hand. Portions of 8 lines from the main text block are preserved, and …
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom.
Small fragment from the bottom of a state document with wide line spacing, preserving only a ḥamdala and ṣalwala.
Fiscal account or receipt. Mentions a name at the top and mentions wheat further down. Needs examination.
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 …
Very cryptic document in Arabic script. Contains phrases such as "al-aqlāmī al-mālikī al-nāṣirī," wa-l-salām," and a reference to "al-azmān." Several phrases are repeated multiple times; …
Recto: An account related to the production of cane sugar. A ḍarība seems to be an amount of cuttings you have to plant, and each …
State document, iqṭāʿ-related. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era, based on handwriting and format. The bottom 11 lines of the document are preserved. Moderately wide space between the …
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 …
State document. Response to endorsement of a petition written by Yuḥannā b. Abī l-Layth (a Christian), who referred the case to the office of al-Afḍal. …
ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه الراى العالي السامي في ذلك ان شا الله
وكتب في العشر الاخر من شهر رمضان سنة ار…
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To our lord, the blessings of God be upon him, belongs the lofty and exalted resolution concerning that, if God wills.
It was written in …
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Fragment of a state document. The ends of two lines are preserved. Dated 2 Muḥarram 528 H = November 1133 CE. Reused on recto for …
State document, in Arabic script. Addressed to two addressed in a dual tense. The sender is in Damsīs. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Reused for …
Fragment with two partial lines of an Arabic state document. Mentions a group of people who want help (وان غرضهم مساعدة). Reused for Hebrew literary …
A few letters are preserved from an Arabic state document, probably a decree. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Booklet of psalms and other liturgical text. On fol. 3v, righthand side, there are various jottings, including one phrase that looks like it is from …
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 …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The petitioner complains that the ىىن (= the fig trees? the straw?) have been moved …
Verso (original use): remnant of an official Arabic document. Mentions "to al-Dār al-Saʿīda in Fustat."
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) in Fustat for Mawhūb b. Ghālib, a Christian. Dated: 537 AH = 1142/43 CE (previous PGP descriptions gave the …
State-related report on unrest all over Egypt, from the Delta (Ṭalkha and Suwayd on recto) to Upper Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīd on verso). Mentions Bedouins (al-ʿurbān and …
Blessings for the caliph or sultan in Judaeo-Arabic. Presumably practice for a petition (cf. Moss. IV,56.1 and T-S NS 110.26).
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Dated: 501 (?). Capitation tax in Fustat. Two registration requests, two ʿalāmas. Trigger: ṣaḥḥa. Glyph at the top.
Verso: Petition from a woman. In Arabic script. She is "cut-off" (munqaṭiʿa) and poor (ṣuʿlūka). Not much else is preserved. On verso there is a …
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State document, possibly. There are two lines in a chancery hand and the end of a third line, with huge spaces between them, and an …
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 …
Two partial lines from a large petition in Arabic script. Some phrases: "... bi-waqt al-jibāyāt fī zamānihā(?) mujtahid... wa-yasal wa-yaḍraʿ...." There are also a few …
Official letter, six fragmentary lines in Arabic, recycled by ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen of Jerusalem (d. ca. 1055) for a Piyyuṭ which dates the state …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 24 Ramaḍān 405. Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd …
State document, probably accounts of some sort. Mentions "al-mustakhdimīn". Needs examination.
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions a price, 90 pieces of gold, and "what we have observed is rightful". Reused on recto for Hebrew …
Petition draft. From Manṣūr b. Salāma (Khan) or b. Ṣadaqa (Elbaum and Rustow independently of one another) to the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (1101–30 …
العبد المملوك
منصور بن سلامة من اهل سنديون
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا وسي…
The servant and slave
Manṣūr ibn Salāma from among the people of Sindiyūn.
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
The bl…
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Two unrelated Arabic script documents glued together for the sake of reuse. Lower document: State document. Only the first few words are preserved from ~12 …
Tax receipt. Fatimid-era. Short. Granted to a certain Yūsuf. Amounts and date and scribe are not immediately clear. Needs further examination.
Petition, or at least a formal letter in Arabic script. Portions of 11 lines are preserved. Many polite formulae are preserved, but unclear how much …
ا]لسعيد مما كان مصادرته في كل [
] له دينار لا يوصل منه في هـ[ـذه
] كل(؟) نجم بالغرض ان تجري هذه الـنو[احـ]ـي(؟) [
] فلولا خوفي من سخطه لكنت …
State document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text. In the hand of ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel?
Official receipt of some kind. For Bū Saʿīd b. Ibrāhīm. Very busy. Quite faded, too. There is the remnant of an earlier document on verso. …
Brutal document. Probably to do with fiscality. Looks official and Mamluk-era based on paleographical grounds. Needs examination.
Fol. 1, verso: Small fragment of official-looking correspondence in Arabic script.
Petition, Fatimid(?). In Arabic script. Last 9 lines. With hamdala and hasbala at end. Not a lot of context can be gleaned from the preserved …
State document, Arabic script. Fragmentary. Probably an official correspondences offering congratulations/prayers on the occasion of a new caliph coming to power (... fī ḥulūl mulk …
مو]لانا صلوات الله عليه واهلك[عداه
]ـل بالتسبيح والتمجيد عند اعلانه به وشفع دعاء [
و[د]عا جميع الحاضرين بالابتهال من الله تعالى والرغبة اليه
…
Possibly an official document in Arabic script, but the hand is crude. Could also be an IOU with a layout reminiscent of state documents. Concerns …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Needs examination for content. Reused on the other side for a Judaeo-Arabic narrative describing the surface of the earth, wells …