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Receipt for the capitation tax of [...] b. Yūsuf in Fustat. Needs further examination.
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Report from Tyre to the chancery of al-Malik al-Afḍal concerning military and administrative affairs on the coast of Palestine, dating probably to 1108 CE. Same …
Tax receipt. Contains registrations (ʿalāʾim) from the Dīwān al-Ishrāf at the top. There are also several endorsements underneath. The date looks like 547 AH = …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Khalaf b. Ghālib the Jew, a druggist (ʿaṭṭār) and something else (jabbān? jazzār?) in Fustat for the year 504 …
Verso: Original use. A decree in Arabic script. Probably Mamluk-era. Recto: Small fragment with few lines in Arabic. Probably a recipe or technical instructions (based …
Fragment of a fiscal document, in Arabic script. Requires further examination.
State document(s) in Arabic script. On recto there are administrative/secretarial notes at the top: yuʿāmal.... mutawallī al-nāḥiyya....bi-ʿadl.....inshā Allāh...It also mentions a government bureau towards the …
Fragments of 4 lines of a Fatimid decree. Mentions the caliph (amir al-muʾminīn) and the date (but the date is missing). The blank space on …
]ـه على احدهما دا
]ده
]د ووضعت عند نقله الى صـ[
اميـ]ـر المومنين بتاريخ سـبع[
[.......................]
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Capitation tax receipt. Needs examination.
Ayyubid era receipt, contains the glyph which may mean a "basmala" here. Mentions "min māl al-dīwān". Needs examination. Verso: Document in a different hand in …
Fol. 1, verso: Small fragment of official-looking correspondence in Arabic script.
Order of payment issued for the ṣarrāf Mūsā Naʿīm (Moshe ben Naʿim) involving the Dīwān Anwāl al-Ḥarīr in Alexandria and a certain al-Ḥajj Muḥammad Kh..iyya. …
Verso (original use): Petition or decree. The ends of ~6 lines are preserved. Between the lines and on recto (secondary use): Account in Arabic script. …
Unidentified state document in Arabic script. Recto: The two lines near the top refer to [al-juy?]ūsh al-manṣūra wa-l-majlis al-[...]. There are several further text blocks …
State document, in large oversized chancery script, two words. A decree.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Dated: 501 (?). Capitation tax in Fustat. Two registration requests, two ʿalāmas. Trigger: ṣaḥḥa. Glyph at the top.
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 …
Capitation tax receipt for the Jewish man Yūsuf b. Khalaf in Fustat for the year 513 AH = 1119/20 CE (if read correctly).
State document, in a chancery hand, fragmentary. Some words read as "bi injāz l-kabīr al-m[" and "yakūn hādhā kulluhu". Document is too fragmentary to glean …
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 …
Verso: Official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. Mentions: "...ʿan al-mulaṭṭaf al-karīm..."
Probably a fiscal document. Needs examination.
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.
Ikhshīdid fiscal document. Mentions both Sayyidnā al-Ikhshīd (=Muḥammad b. Ṭughj) and Abū l-Misk (=Kāfūr) by name. Dated: 329 AH = 940/41 CE. Reused for Hebrew …
Fiscal account recording amounts by month.
Verso (original use): Unidentified Arabic document, probably official. Mentions al-Faḍl b. ʿAlī and an agent (al-wakīl). Mostly crossed out. Needs further examination.
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, written in a rudimentary hand. The sender (or the person he is writing on behalf of) wishes to …
حضرته الاجلية ما سبق به كريم وعدها له ما اظن انـ[ـه] تخفى
عن حضرته المحروسة جائحة عبدها ياخذ جميع ما قد كان
يحصل له وقد عزم على العود الى…
Recto: Small fragment (2 lines) from an official report. Needs examination for content. Verso: The report was torn and reused for an order of a …
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 …
A few words in Arabic in a chancery hand ("the order of this [...] arrived..." / وصل امر هذا), possibly from a state document or …
Kharāj receipt. T-S AS 183.155 and T-S AS 183.156 are related (same payer). His name looks like Māḍī b. Fakhr الحىىي but this is tentative. …
Official-looking note in Arabic script. Beginning "awrada al-shaykh X. . ." and ending with a date. Needs examination.
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, Fatimid. Mentions "al-khidma" and "al-muṭāʿ" or maybe "iqṭāʿ" (but less likely). Just a few words preserved in each line and difficult to glean …
Tax receipt for Yūsuf b. Ṣadaqa, probably for his jizya.
Tax or provisional receipt. Mention of silver (waraq) and the month Jumād al-Awwāl on verso.
Draft of copy of a petition in Arabic script addressed to al-Malik al-ʿAzīz Sayf al-Islām Ṭughtakīn, the second Ayyubid amir of Yemen (and brother of …
Probably a state receipt, in Arabic script, for the purchase of a Nubian female slave named Tawfīq. It seems that the seller is Baqāʾ b. …
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Fiscal document, probably. Mentions Yūsuf b. ʿAlī; Muḥammad b. ʿAlī; Mūsā b. ʿAlī, [...] b. Khalīl.
State document in Arabic. Fragments of 4 lines are preserved.
Verso: Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb with a registration mark al-ḥamdu li-llah ʿalā niʿamih. The name of the jahbadh is …
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Writing exercises in a chancery hand. "على العادة في مثله واما ما ذكرته" and "من ان مال الحمل بلاعمال التي مشارفها ". This may have …
State document, in Arabic script. A jarīda. A lot is preserved on both recto and verso, but very difficult to read, mentions "kharaja al-amr al-ʿālī …
Account in Arabic script, looks fiscal. Needs examination.
Brief official letter, or report in Arabic script. Late/ With a stamped seal in the margin next to the name of the issuer/sender (Muṣṭafā Agha/Ağa). …
Letter (?), left half only, narrow folds like a letter, mentioning quantities of something and a certain Nūr al-Dīn, so maybe Ayyubid? Item 16 in …
One line from a state document, evidently a decree or official letter issued by the caliph al-Ḥākim: من عبد الله ووليه المنصور ابي علي الامام …
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. On verso there are accounts of some sort (mentioning Manṣūr b. [...]), unclear if this …
State document, Fatimid, in large chancery script. Mentions the chief Fatimid judge and dāʿī Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Nuʿmān, and that his name is …
Remnants of an Arabic chancery document. Probably from a long rotulus originally. Reused for Hebrew liturgical text. (Information in part from CUDL.)