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Petition from a Jewish man to a dignitary. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Opens with two lines of grand titles for the presumably …
بسم الله] الرحمن الرحيم
المملوك يقبل الارض امام الحضرة السامية الاجلية] القضائية السعيدة الماجدة الامينية
ذ]خيرة(؟) الدين جمال الروسا صـب…
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Capitation tax receipt for Sulaymān al-yahūdī b. Mūsā al-yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib (?). Dated 24 Dhū l-Ḥijja 524 AH (1130 CE). Not authenticated at the top by …
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Verso: Fragment from the beginning of a petition in Arabic script. Contains a taqbīl clause, 'al-maqām al-ʿālī,' and the beginning of the report (wa-yunhī annahū …
State document, in Arabic script. Four fragmentary lines preserved. Dated 446 H/1054 CE. Probably a decree ordering the safeguarding of the affairs of the people …
Fatimid decree. The decree is from the period of al-Hafiz (1131–49) and mentions the congregational mosques of al-Ḥākim (in Cairo) and al-Ḥāfiẓ (it is not …
في المسجدين الجامعين الحافظي والحاكمي
فيضورك من تاخر جائهم فقد خرج
الامر الى الديوان بذكر ما عنده في ذلك
فاعلم هذا امر أمير المومنين ورسمه
In the two congregational mosques, the mosque of al-Ḥāfiẓ and the mosque of al-Ḥākim.
You will suffer if their arrival is delayed. For the order
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Petition from a certain Jaʿfar to a Fatimid dignitary (qāʾid) in which Jaʿfar asks that the support (maʿūna) granted to him not be withdrawn because …
العبد جعفر
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عبد مولاى القائد الجليل اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده وحراـ[ـسته…
The slave Jaʿfar
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of my master, the glorious leader, may God prolong his life and …
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Two official documents, the first (22a) dated Tripoli, 15 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 884 H. [1480], the second (22b) dated 9 (?) Ramaḍān 907 H. [1502].
Numerous drafts of the opening of a petition or an otherwise formal letter to the Fatimid Caliph al-ʾĀmir. In Arabic script. It is not clear …
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وافضل
تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا الامام
بسم الله…
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 25 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. The verso, written before …
Middle part of a tax receipt in the hand of Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, presumably issued for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. This is one of …
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 …
State document, official correspondence. The ends of 8 lines are preserved. Mentions obedience (al-samʿ wa-l-ṭāʿa li-l-amr), and it seems the sender is asking for orders. …
Account in Arabic script, possibly fiscal. Mentions the year 523 AH = 1128/29 CE. The Hebrew script was added later. Needs examination.
Tax receipt, probably.
Receipt for the ground rent (ḥikr) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for the year 4[..] AH (~11th century CE).
State document, in Arabic script. A petition asking for a rescript, probably directed directly to the caliph, because of the raʾy formula towards the end. …
Small fragment of an official (state-related) letter of praise/recommendation for somebody. Two lines are preserved.
Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. Extremely faded. One side might be a tax receipt.
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.
Receipt for Jamīl b. Hiba b. ʿAbbād b. ʿAlī for the ḍamān of a shop (ḥānūt). Dating: the payment is for the year 516 or …
Verso (original use): Fragment from a Fatimid decree of investiture for Abū l-Bayān Mūsā and another person, appointed rightfully (بما يقتضيه العدل ويوجبه الحق) to …
Recto: Fiscal account, probably, or less likely commercial. Needs examination
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: Middle of Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. Amount: one-third and …
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Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. Invokes the trope of a bad person "taking people's property" (akhdh amwālihim) and refers to the caliph (al-ḥaḍra …
Small fragment in Arabic. A few words in a chancery hand.
Receipt for someone's capitation tax in Fustat. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE).
Fragment of a decree on verso, possibly from the same state document as the neighboring shelfmark ENA 2209.12. MCD.
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in the hand of a prolific scribe.
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 …
Fragment with four different text blocks in Arabic, apparently drafts of documents in a chancery hand. Both sides are also reused for Hebrew biblical text …
Fiscal accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Numerous distinct entries; one may refer to "fustuq." Lists prices or sums of money. Needs examination. On verso there …
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, …
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. …
Probably an Ikhshīdid fiscal document. See T-S NS 139.65 (PGPID 23643), belonging to the same Hebrew reuse). Mentions dates, sums of money, and names such …
Petition fragment (upper left corner). The ends of 5 lines are preserved. The addressee is called 'nuṣrat al-mujāhidīn' among other titles. Dating: Ayyubid or Mamluk. …
Verso (original use): Official correspondence in Arabic script. Fragment (beginning). The sender is probably Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad. He begins (instead of the usual honorifics and …
عبدها ابرهيم بن محمد
عذري واضح في تاخري عن حضرو مولاي الشيخ الاجل اطال الله بقاه
وادام تمكينه ونعمته وسموه وكبت …
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Fiscal document, or accounts in Arabic script. Contains atleast two ʿalāmas. Needs examination.
Fiscal accounting, possibly. Needs examination.
Probably a tax receipt. Only the registration notes at the top and the basmala from the original document are preserved.
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 …
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 …
Petition to a Fatimid caliph, in Arabic script. The ends of ~8 lines are preserved from the upper left corner, including much of the preamble …
Probably a document, but could be a religious text such as a prayer. In Arabic script, in a very large (chancery?) hand. Full of fancy …
Probably an official report in Arabic script. Approximately 6 lines are preserved, but very faded and hard to read. Needs examination. Reused on verso for …
Small fragment of Arabic document(s). Recto looks like part of a line from a state document. Verso has a mirror-image imprint of text from another …
Verso (original use): Fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. Refers to Ḥasan b. Ḥayyūn and his cousins who wish the sender to travel with …
State document, in Arabic script. A decree fragment, more precisely. Only four fragmentary lines preserved. Seems to be in response to a plea concerning the …
Verso (original use): Unidentified document in Arabic script. Possibly the bottom of a tax receipt or other state document.
Verso: Official letter in Arabic script. Four lines preserved. The sender reports that a document was signed/endorsed (wuqqiʿat) and its authenticity has been proved. The …
]فة شي ملجمة(؟) وانه ذكر فيها ا[شـ]ـيا قد وقعت وبان صحتها والتمسه
المملوك] ليطلبها منه فوجده قد سافر الى مكة وعرف انه قد
توجه من مصر وعن…
State document, probably official correspondence, in Arabic script. Top of verso has an oversized script which reads "الى بعض الحكام" and the verso mentions "تنفيذ …