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Official correspondence. The beginnings of 9 lines are preserved. There are two fragments here which were glued together out of order. The top fragment mentions …
No Scholarship Records
Lower fragment, recto (original use): Petition, probably. In Arabic script, with gigantic space between the lines. Portions of the last few lines are preserved. Mentions …
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Mamluk-era state document in Arabic script. Dated: 675 AH = 1276/77 CE. Contains various annotations by clerks and is endorsed by both thin and thick …
Document in Arabic script opening with prayers for the caliph al-Āmir bi-Ahkām Allāh (r. 1101–30).
Fol. 1, verso: Small fragment of official-looking correspondence in Arabic script.
State document. Dating: early 13th century (Ayyubid period). Petition from Khuyalāʾ b. Ḥasan and Abū l-Jaysh to the caliph al-ʿĀdil regarding an iqṭāʿ in the …
الناصرية
خيلا بن حسن وابو الجيش
بن احمد
بسم الله ال…
Khuyalāʾ ibn Ḥasan and Abū al-Jaysh
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave kisses the ground before the…
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Unidentified state document in Arabic script. Mentions names/honorifics such as al-Muʾayyad and al-Mukhliṣ several times, as well as Iftikhār al-Dawla and possibly Jawhar. Needs further …
Official-looking account in Arabic script. Mentions al-shaykh Abū Saʿd (the Tustari?) after the basmala. Needs examination.
Document in Arabic script, an official receipt for expenses in the name of the ship captain Raʾīs Muḥammad Barakāt. Dated 28 Rajab 1237 AH which …
State document in Arabic script. Refers to "the noble order" (al-amr al-ajall) and possibly the year 45[.] AH (=1058–67 CE). Needs examination.
Capitation tax receipt for Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam(?) in Fustat for the year 520(?) AH.
Document in Arabic script resembling a state receipt, however sloppier and without the usual registration marks at the top.
Described in PUDL as a letter from a slave to his master regarding administrative matters.[Described on the paper wrapper as: "lettre d'un esclave à son …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū Saʿd b. Bū ʿAlī the Jew in Fustat for the year 557 AH = 1161/62 CE if read …
Draft of a petition, possibly. In Arabic script. Addressed to al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-mawlawī and the petitionee is also addressed as "ʿumdat l-mulūk wa l-salāṭīn". …
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: 545 AH = …
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 …
Small fragment (beginnings of 3 lines) of official correspondence. The first line reads as "shirkatuhum wa-akhadha minhum". Mentions "al-amīr al-ajall." Needs further examination. Reused on …
Original use: Fiscal account in Arabic script. Mentions a sum of greater than 132,000 dinars (this figure has a high degree of precision, ending with …
State document, in Arabic script. Heavily blurred. The left halves of 7 lines are preserved (which seem to comprise the entire document). Opens with formulaic …
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 …
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), …
Bifolio of fiscal accounting, with entries for months of the years 524, 525, and 526 AH. Very detailed, fairly well preserved. The first entry (recto, …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic, likely an official report or petition. The sender reports that he went up to the citadel (يقبل الارض وينهي …
Verso (secondary use): Official-looking receipt of sale or rent concerning a warehouse/shop (ḥānūt), the location of the property is difficult to make out. In Arabic …
Three folios and an additional fragment from a literary work comparing the readings of Abū Saʿīd Aharon b. Moshe b. Asher and Abū ʿImrān Moshe …
Verso: Petition from a woman. In Arabic script. She is "cut-off" (munqaṭiʿa) and poor (ṣuʿlūka). Not much else is preserved. On verso there is a …
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Recto: Small fragment from an official letter. The ends of three lines are preserved. Phrases such as "... al-dawla al-maʿrūfī(?) al-wāṣil... bi-l-nāʾib fī..."
Verso (original use): Letter, maybe official state correspondence. Begins "ʿaraḍa hādhihi l-mukā[taba]...." Mentions Jaʿfar b. Fattāh, only the beginning formula with honorifics is preserved. Ends …
بسم الله [الرحمن الرحيم
عرض هذه المكـ[ـاتبة(؟)
الاجل اطال الله بقاه[
وسموها وسناها و…[
جعفر بن فتاح اجل[
…………………
و..[
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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 …
Verso: tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the …
State document, in Arabic script in a chancery hand. The beginnings of two lines are preserved: "wa-lammā uṭliqat al-[...]... wa-ʿalā kāfat al-mamālīk...." Reused for Hebrew …
Small fragment of official-looking correspondence, likely a petition. Mentions honorifics like "al-karīm al-ʿālī al-makhdūmī."
Official letter or document in Arabic script. Maybe a petition asking the addressee to reprimand and threaten a group of people: والزجر لهم . . …
Document(s) in Arabic script. Recto has two closing lines of a standard Fatimid petition or report: ḥamdala, taṣliya, and the ḥasbala. The verso seems to …
State document, probably. In Arabic script. طريقته ما ظهر منه... والشروع في... عن كتابة وخدمة اذ كان لا فرق... في كل حال. On verso there …
Recto: Letter/report/petition in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. Fragment (upper left corner). After the greetings, legible phrases include, اليك من الناس من المطالبة الذي …
Tax receipt of some sort for Abū l-Riḍā b. Yūsuf. Trigger: ṣaḥḥ. Needs further examination.
Fragments of a state document, probably an internal correspondence addressed to a Fatimid caliph. In an Arabic chancery script. Has remnants of a ray clause …
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.
Left side of an Arabic-script letter. Possibly a petition, or simply a letter that draws on petition-like phrases (this hypothesis is supported by the fact …
State document, report, Fatimid. The report is written on the 3rd of Dhū l-Ḥijja, of an unspecified year, and mentions a previous report that arrived …
اخر ما القدرة(؟) بعده عمل بتاريح يوم الاربعا الثالث
من ذي الحجة….ذكر اخر الوارد من الديوان السعيد
والذي تجدد بعد ذلك خلو الاسواق من الاخباز
State document, decree, in Arabic script. Mentions the year '44, probably [4]44 AH, which would be 1052. The decree seems to be issued in response …
المحل بظاهر الرس(؟) يوم الاثنين لعشر بقين في رجب
سنة اربع واربعين وقد استتب هذين في سلوك
نهج الطاعة والولاء واستبصروا شدي في انخراط
Verso: An ʿalāma, possibly from a larger state document, or practice. "Al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi li-man lahū al-ḥamd." On recto there is unidentified text both in Judaeo-Arabic …
Response to the endorsement of a petition by two men, one of whom is Ibrāhīm, son of the illustrious judge. The case is referred to …
[Praise be to God] alone and his blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad, the prophet, and save (him).
The two servants of our master, the praises of…
State document, in Arabic script. May be a petition. The only phrase preserved is al-mamlūk muqaddam al-juyūsh (commander in chief).
المملوك مقدم الجيوش
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 …
Remnant of a Fatimid state document, likely a decree. No full words are preserved, but the bottom half of one line and the top half …
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 …
Accounts.