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Verso: Remnant of a Fatimid state document, likely a decree. No full words are preserved, but the bottom half of one line and the top …
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Verso: Petition or report to the Fatimid vizier al-Afḍal (r. 1096–1121) regarding a government appointee reporting for duty or fulfilling an order. Including a raʾy …
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Fiscal account. Needs examination.
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 …
Capitation tax receipt. Trigger: tadhkira bism. Dated: 502 AH = 1108/09 CE if read correctly. For Abū l-Yumn(?) b. Baṣal(??). Needs further examination.
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.
Small fragment of a state document or letter in Arabic script. Mentions the Mutawallī al-Ṭirāz. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter or petition from a certain Bū Naṣr (to a woman?). In Arabic script. Begins: عبدها يقبل يديها وينهي انه شهد الله على غاية من …
State document of some kind. Fiscal account? Wide line spacing, small letters. Discrete text blocks arranged in columns. At least one of the text blocks …
State document, in Arabic script. A Fatimid decree, reused for a long liturgical text in Hebrew.
Verso: Fragment with one line of text in Arabic in an elegant scribal hand, from a state document: على تقرر ذلك وينبغي ان. Medieval-era. The …
Document in Arabic script. Probably an official report or petition, based on the hand and layout. The ends of ~6 lines are preserved. The subject …
Tax receipt?
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 …
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 …
Bifolio in which two of the four pages have entries that sound like language from (state?) receipts, and a third page has a legal-sounding formula.
State correspondence (petition?) addressed to a higher official. In Arabic script. Very wide line spacing. 4 short lines are preserved. Phrases such as: التهاني(؟) اليه …
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State document in Arabic script. Three lines and the last word of a fourth are preserved. Mentions titles of the judge Abū Isḥaq (al-qāḍī al-rashīd …
Recto: Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The word "al-ijtihād" is legible, but not much else.
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The petitioners complain to the authorities that a certain person is corrupting their religious status quo (niẓām) and …
And it affects their order and makes it difficult for them
to adhere to their tenets of faith and demobilizes
their congregations. They seek fr…
Recto (secondary use): Tax receipt from the dossier of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb, in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 4 …
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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 …
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?).
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 …
Accounts in Arabic script. Might be state/fiscal. Mentions Fustat and 10 dinars.
Verso: Fragment of official correspondence. Mentions [...] al-bilādī(?), [...] al-maḥrūsa, the phrase "it has been validated(?) for some of the Maghribīs" (وان بعض المغاربة قد …
Verso (original use): The last words of two lines of a letter with wide line spacing, possibly official: خادمها . . . واجباتها . . …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf, a Jewish goldsmith (yahūdī ṣāʾigh), in Fustat, for the year 537. See also T-S Ar.35.197.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
State document, in Arabic script. Maybe a letter or petition. Begins with "yunhī", mentions "sulṭān" and something being in the possession of infidels "fī aydī …
State accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions, "waṣal ilā bayt[". Then mentions a month, "min shahr..".
Recto: Leviticus 23:9-17. Verso: official Arabic document concerning monetary matters. (Information from CUDL)
Lower right corner of a state document, likely an official letter of some sort.
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 …
State document, in Arabic script. Draft, the scribe abandoned the draft after writing the first line. Reused for a Hebrew liturgical text.
Small fragment from a piece of official correspondence: wa-qad sayyara ilayhimā min al-[...]....
Small fragment of fiscal accounting, probably. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Capitation tax receipt, Fatimid. For Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Petition to a Fatimid dignitary concerning (or from?) a certain Abū l-Faraj apparently regarding various properties in a neighborhood (and perhaps their commandeering?). Subsidiary to …
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ابو الفرج الكرخي المبتاع لهذه الدار وقال[
الا باطلاق من مولاي الشيخ //الجليل// لا على الحـ[
اعتابا(؟) له بسبب حق واجب وعند مولا…
Fiscal document, Ayyubid. Bifolio. There are holes in various configurations indicating where the thread for the binding used to be. Three of the four pages …
Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. From three merchants. Opens with blessings for the caliph. None of the substance is preserved. The formula "ضاعف …
Petition to a Fāṭimid vizier concerning an allowance of a jurisconsult, which the petitioner used to receive from the auspicious office, which was to be …
May God make eternal the rule of the lofty and exalted seat, the mighty lord,(commander …
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 …
Probably the top of a petition or report addressed to the mutawallī of something.
Petition from an official. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century (this can be narrowed if the person named is known from chronicles). Mentions an amir …
Bottom two lines of an Arabic document. Might be a state document. The last line is a ḥamdala and ṣalwala, then "Allāhu ḥasbī wa-tawakkaltu ʿalayhi." …
Recto (secondary use): Petition draft in Arabic script. The sender thanks the addressee for employing him in government service (khidma). Mentions "al-dawāwīn al-maʿmūra." The variants …
Small fragment of a petition or state document in Arabic script. One of the only phrases preserved is مراسمنا العالية. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. …
Official document in Arabic script. Apparently dealing with witnesses and legal procedure. Fragments of two lines are preserved: ... fa-asqaṭahu min al-shahāda... min shuhūd al-bilād …
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of a fiscal document. Mentions a date: 5 Dhū l-Qaʿda 612 H, but this should be verified. Reused for …