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State document, genre and content unclear. Dated: Muḥarram 42[.] AH. Needs examination.
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Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, interspersed with Arabic script in the wide spaces what seems like a draft of a letter or just …
]وسعادته لمضافرته ومطالبته؟
]افدته يعزمه مظهر/بعزمه يظهر لي وله قواها
] للنجاج باولاها واخراها
] يعمل عليها وصدره حالا بع…
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Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. Approximately 4 lines are preserved. Wide space between lines. Very faded, and it is difficult to read more than …
Tax receipt issued to the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: (Khan reads 3 Ramaḍān 402). Written by …
[يثبت] نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف
ان شا الله
[اثبت و]المبلغ دينار واحد
[سوا]
والحمد لله على نعمه
[Let it be registered] on behalf of the Bureau of (Tax) Supervision,
if God wills.
[It has been registered, and] the amount…
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Bottom of a tax receipt from the dossier of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb, written by Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 11 Muḥarram 405. The verso …
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Tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf. Needs further examination for the details.
Recto: Fiscal document, in Arabic script, headed with a basmala and beginning in a petition format. Followed by many lines of sums of money, written …
State document, in Arabic script. Almost three lines preserved. Probably a report. Mentions land tax "kharāj zarʿ". Part of the document reads as "فان سالتني …
Oficial letter in Arabic script (وما القول الان الا ان . . . له عن تفضله فيجعل ادام الله عزه . . . وافضاله فوالله …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. State document? On verso there are medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Possibly a fragment of a petition, or a legal document (mentions ṣaḥīḥ sharʿī in l. 2). The beginnings of 11 lines are preserved. Mentions the …
One line from a decree. May read: من غلات البحرية صحبة من يصل ليسلم ذلك
Small fragment of an Arabic state document.
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 …
Official correspondence. Recto: Brief letter. Mentions Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-[...]; "seeking my master Abū l-Faḍl"; "in this there is courage and vigor"; and a request …
Recto: Bifolio with a state-related document (draft or archival copy?). The main text block on the right states that there is an urgent need (al-ḥāja …
State document, decree, in Arabic script. Mentions the year '44, probably [4]44 AH, which would be 1052. The decree seems to be issued in response …
المحل بظاهر الرس(؟) يوم الاثنين لعشر بقين في رجب
سنة اربع واربعين وقد استتب هذين في سلوك
نهج الطاعة والولاء واستبصروا شدي في انخراط
State-issued receipt related to silk processing in Alexandria. In Arabic script. Dated: 1236 AH, which is 1820/21 CE. (MCD with nformation from JRL catalogue.) Needs …
Recto: Petition draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-[ʿIzz al-Yahūdī] kisses the ground before al-maqām al-ʿālī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-sayfī al-ʿādilī, and reports that he …
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Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam. Dated 502? Needs further examination. See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related …
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl al-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat. Dated: 52[.] AH = …
Petition fragment. Contains part of a raʾy clause and a reference to Dīwān al-Shām al-Maʿmūr, and then perhaps "the response of the slave with what …
Bottom of a state document in Arabic script, maybe a petition. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ. On verso there are also piyyuṭ drafts and …
Verso: Document in Arabic script, possibly a petition or report. Refers to government property (amwāl al-sultān) and contains a request to investigate something (bi-an yakshif …
State-issued receipt. Record of a ḥawāla transaction between Yeshūʿa the Jew (aka Shaʿyā Moṣeri) and Bilāl Agha Katkhuda (Ott. Tr. Kethüda) recorded at the Dīwān …
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Small fragment (upper left corner) of an official receipt. Might refer to dyeing (ṣabgh).
State document, in Arabic script. Eleven fragmentary lines, probably addressed to a higher official from a lower official. The official bears the title Ḥamīd al-Dawla. …
Verso (original use): Draft of a petition or other state correspondence in Arabic script, containing conventional praises and blessings for a powerful person. Recto: Draft …
Unidentified official-looking document in Arabic script. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ with Judaeo-Arabic heading גירה. (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto is probably a state report in Arabic script. Damaged and very difficult to read. Referring to people fleeing from a battle, al-Shām, Egypt, ʿAsqalān, …
State document, in Arabic script. Maybe be an investiture but could be a fragment of a petition (...wa-tadbīr umūrihā...). On verso there is one line …
Tax receipt for [...] b. Yūsuf.
Verso (original use): Beginning of state correspondence possibly in the name of the caliph al-Ẓāfir. It is headed by the basmala, followed by the phrase …
Minute fragment of a state document referring to the caliph (al-Imām) al-M[ustanṣir?]. Nothing else is preserved.
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 . . . . . .…
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 …
State document? In Arabic script. There are 4 lines in a very large hand and ~3 lines underneath in smaller letters. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Looks like a state/fiscal hand.
Small fragment of an Arabic document, reused.
Earlier document: Accounts in Arabic script. State document? Needs examination.
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, …
Fiscal accounting document, probably. Large and well preserved. Needs examination. Alt description: Fragment, recto, and verso both contain what look like pen trials (some repetitions, …
Petition in Arabic script from a physician employed in the hospital in Cairo who had a government stipend of 5 dinars per month. This stipend …
وانه من جملة الطب المستخدمين بالبيمارستان بالقاهرة المحروسة بحارة . . . . . [ليس له الا]
قوت يسير لا يقوم باوده وانه كان حصل له من المجلس ا…
Original use: State document in Arabic script. Secondary use: Responsa or halakhic discussion in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya discussing laws of purity of …
Tax receipt. Fragment (bottom half only).
Bottom right-hand part of a receipt written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, presumably relating to a tax payment by the ḍāmin Abū l-Ḥasan …
State report or petition. The ends of ~7 lines are preserved, widely spaced, written in a chancery hand. Possibly a complaint about people taking over …
Verso: One line from a state document: وليستيقظ... وىخدمه...
Fragment of a fiscal document, in Arabic script. Requires further examination.
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Recto contains a date: Muḥārram 567 and total of sums towards the bottom, probably one thousand seven hundred. Needs examination.