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Document in Arabic script. Probably a small piece of a state document, or perhaps a legal document due to the mention of witnesses.Contains an oddly …
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Letter addressed to the chief justice (Qāḍī l-Quḍāt). Only the first 4 lines are preserved.
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State document, in Arabic script. A Fatimid decree, reused for a long liturgical text in Hebrew.
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Faraj b. Bū ʿAlī. Needs further examination.
Official-looking correspondence in Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. Excerpts: حصل . . . . الامر يصل ذلك وان . . . الفندق حمله …
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Bū l-Ḥasan b. [...] the Jewish silk trader for the year 525 AH.
Petition from Naṣir b. Bū l-Faraj, who converted to Islam (ihtadā) under (ʿalā yad) Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn(?) (but perhaps different from the actual Saladin?) in the …
State document. Accounts from the central fisc. Begins: waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr.... Lower down refers to Mālik b. Ibrāhīm. In the bottom text block …
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Petition from a group of Sufis written in the style of a testimony with a dozen witness statements, addressed to someone referred to as "mawlānā …
Bottom of a petition. In Arabic script. "...al-raʾy al-sāmī... bi-l-wuqūf ʿalā mā anhāhu... wa-yaqif ʿinda... in shāʾa llāh...." On verso there is piyyut.
Small fragment from an Arabic official document. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved: bi-yad mawlāy al-shaykh... wa-aḥdara... lā zāla... Reused for piyyuṭ on recto.
Letter or report. In Arabic script. Mentions a man from Tiberias by the name of Baysān, wicked people (fa-kathura fasāduhum), people who mentioned that they …
Two fiscal documents, in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 12th C. Recto is headed "al-muqīmīn" and mentions "al-mustakhraj" in the third line, probably related to tax …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Refers to two iqṭāʿs (على الاقطاعين المذكورين). The last line bears a date that may be 403 AH or 430 …
Receipt for the capitation tax. For the silk worker Bū Naṣr b. ʿUmar al-Yahūdī. Dated: 507 AH, which is 1113/14 CE.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Order or report in multiple hands to do with 131 dīnārs paid to the treasury (bayt al-māl). Person mentioned is Saʿd al-Mulk Ilyās, possibly a …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably internal correspondence, mentioning multiple amirs (all called [...] al-Dawla). The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions "al-mulaṭṭaf" meaning …
A Fatimid decree fragment, possibly of an investiture. Recycled by Efrayim b. Shemarya.
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Official document of some kind. Abū Naṣr al-[...] may owe 6.25 dinars. There is a date (Dhū l-Ḥijja something), but the year seems to be …
Petition? In Arabic script. Small fragment. The phrase "ilā khidmatihī" is legible in the first line.
Decree, fragment. Dating: late Fatimid or Ayyubid. Reused for a bifolio and a single folio containing passages from the Babylonian Talmud. (Join by Sussman catalogue …
Petition mentioning the names of Ismāʻīl and ʻUmar al-Kutāmī. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Complainte contre un homme de la tribu de Kutawa [...] …
Recto and verso are two distinct petitions, in different hands. Unclear if/how they are related. Recto: Petition for charity apparently from someone under arrest (muʿtaqal), …
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Recto: Six lines from a formal Arabic petition, probably late Fatimid. The second line reveals the name of an official: "...al-salāṭīn khāliṣat amīr al-muʾminīn Asad …
له اجمعين (؟) شهد (؟) الدين (؟)……فخر…
والسلاطين خالصة امير المؤمنين اسد الدين ثبت الله
مجده وضاعف سعده واهلك شانئه وضده وقرن
بالتوفيق ح…
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[
[.......................]
Official receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Dated: 556 AH (or kharājī?); if AH, this would correspond to 1160/61 CE. For Bū l-Ḥasan b. …
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 = …
State document, Fatimid. Two fragmentary lines preserved of a larger document. A partial reading of the first line is as follows: "منها وما معها وبوس(؟) …
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, …
State document, in Arabic script, wide spacing, maybe a petition. Mentions a wazīr but the portion of his name is cut off in the lacunae. …
Original use: Accounts in Arabic script, official-looking. Mentions al-Qāḍī al-Asʿad; Ṣafiyy al-Dawla; Ibrāhīm b. Ṣāliḥ Nūrī(?); Sayf al-Mujāhidīn; Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī; ʿAṭiyya; al-Faqīh. The headers …
One line of text in Arabic script, from an official document or letter. Reused for a text in Aramaic on verso and another text in …
Fragment of a petition and/or report in Arabic script. Making a request concerning cash flow: "... fī nafaqātihā al-rātiba mā tadʿū... ilayhi bi-rasmihā ilā Dīwān …
Recto: Fragment of an official state correspondence, in Arabic script. Has wide line-spacing, diacritical dots, and diacritical marks, with iḥmāl markings. Mentions a sijill and …
Beginning of a Fatimid petition, in Arabic script. Reused for a tax receipt on verso.
State document in Arabic script. Most-likely a petition or report reused for a letter on recto. Both sides have the glyph, which signifies a basmala. …
Small fragment with Arabic script in a chancery hand with wide spacing. Possibly a state document. A few words from the two fragmentary lines read …
Petition. In Arabic script. From Yaḥyā al-Tājir. The nature of the request is not clear, nor is it clear how much is missing from the …
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State document, in Arabic script. Probably a part of a report or official correspondence. Reads in part: "as the elders of the Bedouins are aware..." …
Fragment of an Arabic official document reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on both sides in the hand of a prolific scribe.
Beginning three lines of a large state document with elegant line spacing, in Arabic script. Decree. Needs examination. Reused heavily on recto and verso for …
Tax receipt? Very faded.
Tax or provisional receipt. Mention of silver (waraq) and the month Jumād al-Awwāl on verso.
Beginning of a petition beginning "mamlūk al-ḥaḍra. . . ." This seems to be pasted on to a bifolio of Hebrew piyyuṭ in a rudimentary …
Fiscal document in Arabic script. Long vertical format. A few entries are preserved, mentioning sums of money. Reused for Hebrew literary jottings.