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Petition, Fatimid period. Written and signed by a stipendiary of the state in his own hand: Aḥmad b. Ḥamza b. Aḥmad al-Umrāʾī (the reading of …
المملوك
احمد بن حمزة بن احمد الامراي (الاعرابي؟)
رقعة ما نسختها
بعد الدعا
المملوك يقبل الارض بالمقام المعظم النبوي ضاعف الله انواره
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Original use: Bottom part of a state document in Arabic script, containing only the ḥamdala, taṣliya, and ḥasbala. There is also one more word written …
No Scholarship Records
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[ …
Official document (receipt?) of some kind. In Arabic script. Mentions wuṣūlāt/receipts and the sum still owed.
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 …
Recto (secondary use): Tax receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 10 Ṣafar …
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Capitation tax receipt. For Eliyya b. Yehuda(?). Needs examination.
Document in Arabic script. Fiscal? Needs examination. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ, mentioning Ḥannuka.
The beginnings of the lines of an official document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyut (same scribe as T-S NS 111.63 and others?). Might …
Fatimid state document with an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ka-mā huwa ahluhu). Many text blocks, many hands. On one side, l. 4 mentions al-Imām al-Mustanṣir Billāh …
State document, a decree from the chancery of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Probably a copy of a decree, than an original decree as it is less elegant and …
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 …
Possibly a tax receipt or similar document. Rajab 606 AH?
State document, probably a report, in Arabic script. Mentions the Nile flooding "wafā al-Nīl al-mubārak", and begins with a Quranic verse (32:27). Only four lines …
] "به زرعا تاكل منه انعامهم وانفسهم افلا
يبصرون" ا]لطاهرة على سائر الدول بوفا النيل المبارك
و]القتها من عارض بقصة وافته منه فيه هالك…
Receipt ("tadhkira bism...") for the capitation tax of Maʿrūf b. Yahūdhā al-Yahūdī, an indigo merchant (nīlī) and perfumer (ʿattār), in Fustat. See T-S AS 177.105 …
State document, probably. Dated: Rabīʿ II 425 kharājiyya, which is roughly a year or two prior to 1034 CE. Mentions some sums of dinars and …
العز لدين[الله
] سبع بقين من شهر ربيع الاخر
]... … لسنة خمس وعشرين واربع ماىة الخراجية
]. الى سعادة وصواب خدام المظلة
]عن خازنهما …
Bottom of a decree, probably. "...[al-madh]kūra ʿalā farāʾīd Allāh ʿazza wa-jalla..." Then a ṣalwala at the bottom. Reused for piyyut on verso.
Verso: Fragment from the left side of an early Fatimid decree or other state document. The ends of three lines remain, including the word al-taqsīṭ. …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition fragment containing the "rayy" clause.
Fiscal document headed مال سنة سبع واربعين واربعماىة الخراجية وما قبلها "funds of the kharājī year 447 and the preceding." This was circa 1055/56 CE. …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 25 Ramaḍān 405. Amount of payment: one-half dīnār. …
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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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Fatimid fiscal register. Contains the nuqila cipher (cf. AIU XII.92, ENA NS 83.346.1, NLI 4°8333.85, NLI 4°8333.171, NLI 4°8333.172, NLI 4°8333.173, NLI 4°8333.174, NLI 4°8333.175, …
Recto: Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man who has been detained in the arsenal (khizāna, according to Khan khizānat al-bunūd, which was also …
[علـ]ـى [مولانا وسيدنا الامام المسـ]ـتنصر بالله امير [المـ]و[ـمنيـ]ـن [وعلى ابائه]
الطاهرين عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه ينهى الي
الحضرة ا…
Fiscal register, in Arabic script.
Verso (original use): Official-looking accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals: ومنها ما استخرج في يومي السبت والاحد . . . (Information in part from …
Petition or formal letter concerning an iqṭāʿ, which was subsequently torn, and a related record written on verso. Dating: Probably Mamluk or early Ottoman era, …
Original use: Fragment of an Arabic state document with wide line spacing. Decree? The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved, including prayers for the caliph: …
Decree fragment, probably Ghaznavid, containing the order clause and the beginning of the date clause; date cut off. From an 11th-century archive or Geniza of …
Verso: Remnants of an elegant decree hand, in Arabic script. Recto:Probably some rescript or pen trials. An ʿalāma towards the end. Needs examination.
Recto: Arabic-script document containing several sections. The lower part may be a tax receipt for a sum received from Zuhayr b. [...] from the ḍamān …
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Register of ground rent (ḥikr) receipts for Manṣūr b. Muslim al-Zajjāj for his compound in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ with numerous tidy entries spanning a period of …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Hand/layout looks fiscal. Needs examination.
Large document in Arabic script, preserving the ends of ~15 lines. The upper part may be the bottom of a legal query or petition, probably …
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; …
State document, probably a petition or report, addressed to an official styled al-ḥaḍra al-sharīfa. Crumpled and faded. The sender was appointed to a position somewhere …
Could probably be part of a decree. Fragmentary date preserved.
Notes in Arabic script, recording the arrival of something ([...] bi-mā waṣala) at the funduq al-[daqīq or raqīq] al-Sulṭānī in New Cairo on the 13th(?) …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. State document? On verso there are medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Recto: Small fragment from an official letter. The ends of three lines are preserved. Phrases such as "... al-dawla al-maʿrūfī(?) al-wāṣil... bi-l-nāʾib fī..."
Beginning of a petition addressed to the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Beginning lines only. On verso, there is literary text in Hebrew. For the formula "al-ḥaḍra …
Verso (original use): Fiscal accounting document (or an official order for the release of funds?), complete with ḥamdala and ḥasbala. Dated: 5 Shawwāl 4xx (412?).
State document of some kind. Needs examination.
Writing exercise in a chancery hand, two different hands alternating. Encomium to an official. Alternatively, the original document may be a genuine document rather than …
Small official-looking receipt in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Recto: Official receipt of some sort, with endorsements. There is a date: 443 AH? On verso there is a remnant of an earlier document, an …
Recto: Order from a higher official, or a copy of one. Issuing instructions about looking after the property of 'the two noble mosques,' something to …
Petition from a man described as having many dependents (the first two lines read: wa-huwa ṣuʿlūk kathīr al-ʿāʾila wa-yasal al-inʿām ʿalayhi wa-al-iḥsān ʾilayhi bi-khurūj ilā …
Two lines of a state document probably, based on format. Very large. But might also something poetical, referring to love: ḥālī yattaṣilhā l-hawā wa-l-maḥabba wa-ʿindahumā …
State document, fragmentary. Three and a half lines preserved, difficult to glean context, mentions taking permission, "لانه حين اذن". Reused for a Hebrew text, on …