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Tax receipt of some sort, for the poor Jews of Fustat. Very similar to T-S K25.240.6v. T-S K25.240 ff.3–6 comprise one cluster (ḥikr receipts?) and …
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State document, Mamlūk-era, in Arabic script. An ʿalāma in an outsized script at the top. Needs examination.
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right and a jahbadh signature at the bottom.
Decree, possibly of al-Malik al-Ashraf. Partially transcribed by S. M. Stern (NLI ARC. 4°1656, File 507).
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Recto: State document, in Arabic script. Probably late. An internal report of some kind in a very formal tone. The beginning of the document mentions …
Report. In Arabic script. Headed: al-ʿizza lillāh waḥdahū. Might be a draft, since there are some extra jottings in the same hand around the first …
Fiscal document (account? in table form) with very wide line spacing, in a chancery/fiscal hand. Appears to list at least 12 towns in the upper …
Receipt in Arabic script (waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr) in the name of Ibrāhīm b. Sunbāṭ al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), the Maghribī Jew, dated Ramaḍān 442, …
State-issued receipt, in Arabic script, late. Receipt of payment of Dawūd al-Yahūdī for the administrative section of Qalyūbiyya (al-Qism al-Awwal Qalyūbiyya).
Fragment of an Arabic official document reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on both sides in the hand of a prolific scribe.
Verso: One line from an Arabic state document: لشانه . . . وطالعت حضرته . . . Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.
Fiscal document(s) in Arabic script. Bifolio. One entry on each page of recto. The right side is concerning the transport and fiscal administration of agricultural …
Tax receipt, Fatimid, possibly for the year 414? 11.5 x 10.5. NB: There is a discrepancy between the numbering of the manuscripts and the photos; …
Small fragment of an official letter. A few words from the beginnings of two lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. On verso there …
Fragment of a petition to a vizier, possibly al-Afḍal. Approximately three lines of the opening praises are preserved. Reused on recto for poetry attributed to …
Recto: Official letter mentioning the kharāj and agriculture. Also mentions khafāra and a Coptic name Yāfus. Dating: before September 1013. On verso there is a …
Recto (secondary use): Official receipt of some sort relating to agricultural activities in a district whose name is difficult to read. Dated: 25 Dhū l-Ḥijja …
Verso (original use): A state report, most likely a draft, in Arabic script. Dating: 12th C because of report openings. Another report is written inversely …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam. Dated 508? Needs further examination. See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related …
A few words from a state document in Arabic script (... al-dawla ...). Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Tax receipt, late Fatimid, for the jizya payment of a Jewish person (name difficult to read), with registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq', praise …
Recto: Upper part of an official letter/report. In Arabic script. The handwriting looks Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. Moderately wide line spacing. Opens with a taqbīl and …
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 …
Sugar accounting for the Dīwān al-Sulṭān (of al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb) mentioning the refinery of Ṣafad (or al-Ṣafadī?) and the sugar of Ashmūn. Mentions a quantity of …
Recto: Fragment, 11 lines in a chancery(?) hand, difficult to read. Needs examination. Perforated binding. Verso: Mamlukī names in pretty naskhī script on verso. Including …
Receipt of some kind.
Tax receipt?
Official-looking letter(s) in Arabic script. Very damaged.
State-issued receipt related to silk processing in Alexandria. In Arabic script. Dated: 12 Jumād[a] 1236 AH (). (MCD with information from JRL catalogue.) Needs examination.
Verso: Official correspondence. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. Dating: likely ca. first half of the 12th century, based on the dating of recto. Mentions news …
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 …
Recto: Fiscal account, probably, or less likely commercial. Needs examination
Fiscal document/receipt in Arabic script Dated: 5 Muḥarram 735 AH = 5 September 1334 CE. For the capitation taxes of the Jews in Damascus(!?) (bi-l-Shām …
Administrative document, possibly. In Arabic script. Specific genre and purpose unclear. Mentions garments and fabrics (kiswa, mandīl sūsī, sufra Iskandārī) and the phrase فوجد الذي …
Fragment of a fiscal account. Concerning the elite military corps known as al-ghilmān al-ḥujariyya ("the slaves of the barracks"), a training academy for Turkish cavalry …
Tax receipt? Needs examination.
Recto: Petition in Arabic script from "the son of one of the doctors" to two addressees. The petitioner mentions his desire to open a shop …
Tax receipt. Beginning "tadhkira bism..." For Ibrāhīm b. Menashshe. For his capitation tax payment in Fustat. Receipts sharing the same administrative note/hand at upper left …
Official receipt of some kind. Very difficult to read.
Bifolio (subsequently folded into thirds) of an eclectic selection of incomplete state-related documents. Perhaps the writing exercises or drafting of a chancery scribe, or else …
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Petition, probably. In Arabic script. ~4 lines preserved. Refers to al-dīwān al-Mustanṣirī. On verso there is piyyut. Likely related to the cluster T-S H11.90 + …
Small fragment (beginnings of 3 lines) of official correspondence. The first line reads as "shirkatuhum wa-akhadha minhum". Mentions "al-amīr al-ajall." Needs further examination. Reused on …
Fiscal account, possibly Mamlūk-era. Mentions the names of several amīrs, including Ṣuʿlūk b. Majsūr. Al-Maqrīzī mentions an amīr Shihāb al-Dīn Ṣuʿlūk Atābika (Sulūk: I, 556); …
Official-looking report in Arabic script. Refers to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Mukhtār b. Bushayr (? cf. ENA 4020.62). Mentions the governors (ʿāmilīn) of various locations. Needs examination. …
Verso: Minute fragment of an Arabic state document. The first words of two lines are preserved, wide line spacing. One of the words may be …
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script, possibly a petition. Contains blessings for the addressee: "li-ʿālim(?) khallaṣahu(?) li-ʿālamīn(?) adāma Allāhu saʿdahū wa waṭṭada(?)... majdahu …
Tax receipt for [...] b. Eliyya, a Jewish silk trader (qazzāz). Needs examination for details.
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script. Contains the phrase "al-ḥamdu lil-lāh mustaḥiqq al-ḥamd."
Two different state documents, in Arabic script, glued together to form one Hebrew literary document. Reused by the same Hebrew scribe as T-S NS 111.63 …