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Receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 16 Ṣafar 404. Written by the …
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Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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One line in Arabic script, reads as "المستنصر بالله صلوات الله عليه....".
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a report, petition, or recommendation from Ṭalḥa al-Qibṭī to a dignitary, probably in Cairo. Dating: Probably Ayyubid-era or later, …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū ʿAlī b. Faraj(?) a Jewish goldsmith (ṣāʾigh) in Fustat for the year [50?]8.
Verso: Fragment from the end of a state document, probably a decree. In a very large chancery hand: على آله الطاهرين وسلم تسليما. There are …
Document in Arabic script, perhaps a state petition, beginning with "wa l-mamlūk yasʾal l-tawfīq" and mentions a wall "ṣūr"; reused for poetry in Judaeo-Arabic (see …
Decree fragment: one line on recto. 'adal(a) followed by tooth+loop (fragmentary word). Cut, reused, and bound in a Hebrew script literary text: 12 lines on …
Fiscal document. Mentions a qāḍī, "al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra," and various sums of money. Cf. T-S K6.150.2 (PGPID 34366). Needs examination. At the top there is what …
Recto: Fragment of a letter in a chancery hand; official correspondence? May mention al-faqiḥ al-wakīl ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn. Verso: Fragment of a …
Writing practice or drafts of the formulae typically used in official documents with prayers for the caliph ("... al-ṭāhirīn... al-akramīn...).
State report? Three lines preserved, wide space between them: واحضار . . . ال . . . من جزيرة بني [عمـ؟]ـر فالذي اعتمده في ذلك(؟) …
State document, in large oversized chancery script, two words. A decree.
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Recto: Fragments of two lines of a grand state document, perhaps a decree. The word ملاحظتك is discernible.
Possibly a fiscal document. Mentions the kharāj. Needs examination.
Tax receipt.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam. Dated 523? Needs further examination. See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related …
Tax receipt. Fatimid-era. In Arabic script. A portion (ʿaraṣa) of a warehouse is leased to Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm. The sum is 7.5 (written at lower …
Small fragment from a state document (tax receipt?) with the ʿalāma الحمد لله الخفي لطفه.
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Probably an account of state properties (amlāk). Contains an ʿalāma "Allāh Ḥawlī". The accounts are organized with …
Decree (copy in Hebrew script) from the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir to a governor of Palestine (probably Anushtekin al-Dizbirī) informing him of another decree that had …
A petition was submitted by the Rabbanite Jewish Community to the Court of the Commander of the Faithful in which they requested that they be treated…
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Verso (original use): State (fiscal) document in Arabic script. Mentions 300-something al-kharājiyya (a year? in which case this would be ~1009 CE at latest). There …
Document in Arabic, unclear content, left half only, with sewing holes at left, top, and diagonally across the upper left corner. Likely an official document. …
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 …
Fiscal register, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Decree fragment in Arabic script. There are no full words to work with because of damage that was sustained after the paper was reused for …
State document in Arabic script, the ends of three lines are well-preserved. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Recto: Fiscal account in Arabic script, containing various entires related to taxation. Probably torn from a document which was originally very large. Verso: Document in …
Tax receipt. Fragment (bottom half only).
State document: End of a Fatimid petition or report from the period of al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or earlier.
Fiscal document (account? in table form) with very wide line spacing, in a chancery/fiscal hand. Appears to list at least 12 towns in the upper …
Lower left corner of a petition.
من محابة والشكر(؟)
واحواله ومهماته منعما ان شا الله
الحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا]محمد نبيه واله الطاهرين وسلام
وحسبنا …
Recto: Fiscal account, probably, or less likely commercial. Needs examination
Official-looking correspondence in Arabic script. Only the basmala and the opening line (ṣalawāt allāh wa-barakātuhū wa-nawāmī zakawātihī wa-afḍal taḥiyyatihī) are preserved.
State-issued order of payment from the Treasury of Silk Looms in Alexandria. Date: 14 Jumāda II 1237 AH (1820 CE). A total of 150 kuruş …
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Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, written in a rudimentary hand. The sender (or the person he is writing on behalf of) wishes to …
حضرته الاجلية ما سبق به كريم وعدها له ما اظن انـ[ـه] تخفى
عن حضرته المحروسة جائحة عبدها ياخذ جميع ما قد كان
يحصل له وقد عزم على العود الى…
Recto (original use): Bottom of a formal petition, or most likely a report due to state related affairs discussed, in Arabic script, mentioning "al-thaghr" (=Alexandria?) …
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 …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl the Jewish silk merchant. Related to the cluster that includes T-S Ar.35.204 (PGPID 20619) …
Minute fragment of a state document. The only words preserved are "[al-Must]anṣir Billāh Amīr al-Muʾmin[īn]." Dating: 1036–95. Reused for a Hebrew liturgical jotting on verso.
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…
Very unusual account, written in large letters, likely fiscal. Perhaps wages for soldiers/mercenaries? Recto, upper section: -people's names such Masʿūd b. Manṣūr b. Sabʿ(?) and …
Petition from a group of people to a chief vizier (Sayyid al-Wuzarāʾ) titled "al-Kāmilī." In Arabic script. Fragment (upper half only). The petitioners complain that …
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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…
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 …
Letter in Arabic script, previously catalogued as a memorandum from one Fatimid official to another. Needs examination. Tax receipt on verso.
A pair of conjoined (either glued together or never separated in the first place) tax receipts related to a tax farm (ḍamān). Dated: 25 Jumādā …
Decree fragment, probably. Two lines partially preserved: ليكونوا على اشغالهم(؟) بها متوفرين و . . . مجتهدين . . . Reused on verso for Birkat …
Recto (reuse): Official receipt for [...] b. ʿAlī, mentioning the kharāj and a waterwheel (sāqiya). The payment was 1 dinar. The entire date is difficult …
Fragment of a report apparently from an army officer to a superior. He describes how "we all went out to Wādī Buṭnān (near Aleppo) and …