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Verso: Original use. A decree in Arabic script. Probably Mamluk-era. Recto: Small fragment with few lines in Arabic. Probably a recipe or technical instructions (based …
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Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam in Fustat for the year 525 AH = 1130/31 CE. Needs further examination. See T-S …
Recto: Upper part of an official letter/report. In Arabic script. The handwriting looks Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. Moderately wide line spacing. Opens with a taqbīl and …
Small, official-looking receipt. Trigger: afrada.... For ʿImrān b. al-Riṣāfī(?). Seems to be for 25 dinars. The ʿalāma at upper right looks like wa-l-ḥamdu li-l-lāhi musābiq …
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 …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a decree fragment. Contains one fragmentary line and the top of another. Reused for a Hebrew script document on …
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Bottom of an official letter (petition?) in Arabic script. The last line is a ḥamdala and ṣalwala. Unclear how much of the text above this …
Petition (draft) from […] Mukhliṣ, in Minyat Ghamr, to an Ayyubid dignitary. In Arabic script. The petitioner complains about the young son of a neighbor …
[ ] Mukhliṣ, inhabitant of Minyat Ghamr.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
(The slave) reports to the seat o…
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Petition/letter of appeal for assistance likely addressed to 'the overseer' (al-mushārif, l. 1). The sender refers to this document as "this khidma." The sender is …
State document, probably capitation tax receipt, in Arabic script. Contains two registration marks "الحمد لله وبه استعين" and "الحمد لله لما انعم". The first line …
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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Tax receipt for someone's payment of the capitation tax in Fustat. Dated: looks like 557 AH = 1161/62 CE.
Probably the bottom of a tax receipt.
State document. In Arabic script. Refers to iqṭāʿ throughout, at least four times. One of the mentions is probably referring to an iqṭāʿ in the …
Recto: State document, huge line spacing, ends with ṣalwala in a calligraphic hand, probably a decree. On verso there is a letter (see separate record). …
State document, fragment of a longer text, dismembered at the collesis. What has remained is wa-mā tawfīqī illā bi-l-lāh. Possibly Ayyubid (tawfīqī billāh was an …
State, document in Arabic script, probably a petition. Sort of a rudimentary hand. The petitioner renews the taqbīl, "al-mamlūk yujaddid ta[qbīl]."
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Faḍl b. Manṣūr, a Jewish trader, in Fustat. Dated: 17 Muḥarram 525 AH.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Small fragment, not much text preserved.
Fiscal account, probably. Likely concerning grain (mentions the prices of arādibb). Needs examination.
Verso: Minute fragment of Arabic-script text, possibly a decree, but late. Requires further examination.
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 …
A part of a decree from the court of the Fātimid Caliph al-Ẓāhir, protecting the rights of the Qaraite communities in Palestine against Rabbanite encroachment, …
Fiscal register? Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there. Mentions quantities of flax.
Verso: Probably a fragmentary state document, mentions al-Majlis and beginning of a date "bi-tārikh". Recto: Regarding selling of a slave girl. (AA)
Fiscal document, top and bottom missing. Refers to kharāj payments for the year 437 kharājī (about five lines up from the bottom of the page); …
Tax receipt for jizya in the name of Bū Naṣr al-Yahūdī for the year 514. Trigger: addā. Contains a registration mark.
State document, in Arabic script. Record of an ordinance dated Ṣafar 537 AH (= September 1142 CE) from Al-Ẓāfir to instruct Al-Hāfiẓ’s book warehouse to …
Bottom part of a tax receipt. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century).
Petition to the Ayyubid sultan al-ʿĀdil regarding the capitation tax. Dating: ca. 596–615 AH, which is 1200–18 CE. The petitioner asks that his tax rate …
العادلى المظفري [ ]ـي .[سلطان]
جيوش المسلمين وادام قدرته واعلا ابدا كـ[ـلمته] ...
المملوك يقبل الارض امامه وينهى الى
رافته واحسانه …
... al-ʿĀdil, the victorious [ sultan]
of the armies of the Muslims, (may God) cause his power to endure and exalt his word for ever.
The slave…
Verso: A tax-related note referring to what Jaʿfar(?) b. [...] the jahbadh will do. Needs examination. This document was torn and reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Verso: Official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. Mentions: "...ʿan al-mulaṭṭaf al-karīm..."
State document, official correspondence. The ends of 8 lines are preserved. Mentions obedience (al-samʿ wa-l-ṭāʿa li-l-amr), and it seems the sender is asking for orders. …
Receipt in Arabic script for a payment by Mūsā [ben] Naʿīm, dated 1824/25 CE (the end of Muḥarram 1240H). The receipt was issued by the …
State receipt issued by fiscal officials of the Qalyūbiyya qism, one of the twenty-four administrative sections that existed in Egypt after 1826. Dated in [1]247 …
State document, in Arabic script. Most probably an internal correspondence. Mentions a Qāḍī Ḥammād b, ʿAlī and also Amīr al-Muʾminīn in l4. Reused for Hebrew …
Document in Arabic script. Unusual format, with text mostly in one column on the right side of the page. Moderately wide spice between the lines. …
Verso: Official-looking receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣabbāgh for the rent of his shop. On recto there is an earlier (state?) document, in Arabic script. Mentions …
Fragment of a capitation tax receipt, probably. Needs examination.
Original use: Official correspondence in Arabic script, mentioning Ibn al-Salār (vizier of al-Ẓāfir, 1149–53 CE). Needs examination for content. Secondary use: Literary text in Arabic …
Recto: two documents. The first (bottom) is an order for delivery of dues to the office of land tax (dīwān al-kharāj) written by the accountant …
Commercial or official/fiscal account referring to names. Needs examination.
At least two documents across two fragments (which belong together). In Arabic script. Two of the documents look legal/administrative. A third text-block is an extended …
Fiscal document fragment, in Arabic script. One phrase preserved (من ذي القعدة), part of a larger register. See PGPID 39403.
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 …
Possibly a fiscal document. Faded and damaged. Reused for Hebrew literary text on recto.
Small fragment of a petition for charity in Arabic script.
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Very elevated register. Approximately 8 lines are preserved, but few details.
Capitation tax receipt for Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam(?) in Fustat for the year 520(?) AH.
A few words from the end of a decree: واعـ[ـلم هذا] واعمل عليه وبحسبه وو . . . . Reused for Hebrew liturgy.