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Official letter in Arabic script in a chancery hand, with wide line spacing. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved.
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Government receipt in Arabic on verso, one line states ṣaḥḥa li-Abū l-Aʿlā(?)… ʿalāʾim. Medieval-era. Requires further examination. MCD/ASE
Report or petition draft, but most like the a report due to the verb "فاعلمته" (I inform) followed by the raʾyy clause.
Fol. 1, verso: Small fragment of official-looking correspondence in Arabic script.
Recto: Chancery exercises. The basmala appears twice, and one line begins, "Qāla Amīr al-Muʾminīn..." Verso: State document, Fatimid. Opens with a reference to an employee …
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a letter or petition. 4 lines are preserved. Dating: possibly ca. 13th century based on handwriting and format. Mentions various …
Receipt for the capitation tax of [...] in Fustat.
Decree in Arabic script. The beginnings of two lines are preserved and the tops of some letters from a third line: bi-muqtaḍā mā huwa... man …
Fragment of an official letter (upper left piece). In Arabic script. After the basmala one reads :ʾaṭāla llāh baqāhā wa-ʾadāma taʾyīdahā wa-ʿalāhā (l. 2), ʿārafahu …
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Recto (original use): Large state document in Arabic script, likely a decree. The ends of two lines are preserved ([...]bihā wa-ʾārāʾuhā....).
Fiscal document, in Arabic script.
Fiscal document in Arabic script. Mentions al-aʿmāl al-madkhūra in the main text block. Possibly a receipt with a signature at the bottom. Needs examination.
State document, likely a decree. The ends of three lines are preserved. "... bi-l-istiʿmālāt al-mubāraka... wa-ʿarrafanā ijtihādaka... al-maḥmūl ʿaynan wa-l-aṣnāf...." Acknowledging the good service of …
Official letter, six fragmentary lines in Arabic, recycled by ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen of Jerusalem (d. ca. 1055) for a Piyyuṭ which dates the state …
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: 530 AH = …
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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Bifolio with fiscal accounts. One page begins: "waṣala ilā [bayt al-māl?] al-maʿmūr min jihat Muḥammad b. ʿAmmār al-wakīl fī [...]," then the date: 413 or …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 20 Shawwāl 405. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl …
Let it be registered on behalf of the office of supervision,
if God wills.
They have registered the amount…
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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 …
Official correspondence, probably. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Difficult to make out much of the content Mentions "al-Dawla" (likely part of someone's laqab) …
State document, decree, in Arabic script. Mentions "al-tawẓīf al-dimashqī" (as in T-S H2.83 (PGPID 40839)), "suʾālī wa-khiṭābī" and "al-awqāf," possibly referring to a financial matter. …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. For Hiba b. Yūsuf. Trigger: addā. Year: 547 (?). See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Receipt for Muḥammad b. Yūsuf. Needs examination.
Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: Beginning of Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. Amount: one-quarter, one-sixth, and …
One line in Arabic script: a ḥamdala and ṣalwala, probably from the bottom of what was originally a much larger state document.
Probably an Ikhshīdid fiscal document. See T-S NS 139.65 (PGPID 23643), belonging to the same Hebrew reuse. ASE
State document in Arabic script, with extensive diacritics and vowels. Dating: ca. 11th–13th century. Praising a ruler and emphasizing the tranquility and the security in …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Probably state-related. Verso: Headed by the basmala, followed by an elongated "ʿaml," followed by "the petition (? ruqʿa) of Fuḍayl …
Official correspondence. Recto: Brief letter. Mentions Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-[...]; "seeking my master Abū l-Faḍl"; "in this there is courage and vigor"; and a request …
Fragment of an official letter (report or petition?). In Arabic script. The ends of two lines are preserved. Phrases include: lil-khidma bi-l-thaghr... bi-ḍawāḥīh... Reused on …
Fragment, concluding 5 lines of what seems a state document in a chancery hand ending with a ṣalwala. Some phrases: "wa l-dukhūl fīhi sana", "in …
State document, Arabic script. Fragmentary. Probably an official correspondences offering congratulations/prayers on the occasion of a new caliph coming to power (... fī ḥulūl mulk …
مو]لانا صلوات الله عليه واهلك[عداه
]ـل بالتسبيح والتمجيد عند اعلانه به وشفع دعاء [
و[د]عا جميع الحاضرين بالابتهال من الله تعالى والرغبة اليه
…
Tax receipt for Nuṣayr b. Saʿīd. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE).
Fiscal (or other?) receipt. Arabic writing, Coptic numbers.
Receipt of some sort: "afrada Ibrāhīm [...] al-maṭbakh..." Needs examination.
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 8 Rabīʿ I 405 (6 September 1014). Written …
Tax receipt or commercial account or receipt.
Recto: Petition. The endings of 5 lines are preserved, with a raʾy clause at the bottom. The nature of the request is unclear, but requests …
Fragment of a petition or at least a letter to a high official. ~9 lines are preserved. "... al-amīrī al-kabīrī al-ʿaḍudī al-nuṣayrī al-dhukhrī al-humāmī al-isfahsalārī …
Verso (original use): State document, in Arabic script. Decree. Two lines only, a tentative reading is as follows "لي الكتاب...وقد الزمهم العمل والحال". YU. Written …
State document, in Arabic script. Almost three lines preserved. Probably a report. Mentions land tax "kharāj zarʿ". Part of the document reads as "فان سالتني …
Fragment of a decree mentioning the funds of a dīwān in exchange for something. Late Fatimid (paleographic dating), same chancery hand as some of the …
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A few words from a state document in Arabic script (... al-dawla ...). Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
Decree, or rather record of the issuing of a decree/rescript (tawqīʿ) from the chancery of al-Ḥāfiẓ, as a response to a petition (ruqʿa) sent by …
The exalted rescript, may God increase its efficacy, has been issued,
dated Muḥarram of the…
State document, report, in Arabic script. Chancery hand (though not the best), with widened space between the lines, and with white space used to divide …
Bottom of a state document in Arabic script. 3 lines preserved, wide space between the lines. Gives the date of writing (12 Shaʿbān, no year), …
Official correspondence (petition or report). Refers to Dīwān al-Shām (of Syria, cf. T-S AS 111.37). The beginnings of two lines are preserved: "al-mutaqaddim min jihat …
Fiscal accounting. [Waṣala] ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr bi-taʾrīkh [...]. Needs further examination.
Fragment of a petition, or draft. Nothing is preserved except for the identification of the petitioners: al-ʿabīd al-mamālīk jamāʿat al-yahūd, i.e., a group or community …
Tax-related receipt. The main text section is more verbose than usual for jizya receipts, and it mentions the term jahbadh—so something to do with internal …