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Recto: (1) Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic from Abū ʿAlī to al-Shaykh al-Makīn. Complains about al-Shaykh al-Mufaḍḍal. Nearly complete, but difficult to read because of the overlapping …
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Tax receipt.
Probably an Ikhshīdid fiscal document. See T-S NS 139.65 (PGPID 23643), belonging to the same Hebrew reuse. ASE
Top three lines of a state document in Arabic script. First a basmala, then: ثبت(؟) اصدار(؟) مالك المجلس السامي الامير الاجل المفضل(؟). In between lines …
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 …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic ("... al-nabawiyya..."). Reused on both sides for Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
A few words from an Arabic state document: "kutiba... dhī l-qaʿda...." Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Tiny fragment in Arabic script, with wide line spacing and chancery script. Official Correspondence. On verso, there is mirror image text, probably from a letter …
Recto: receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office …
ذو القعدة
العشرين [منه]
باسم سرور بن مرقس (؟) باسم انو يعـ[قوب ]
لسنة احدى واربعمىة .[ ]
السادس والعشرين منــــــــــــــــــه [ ]
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One line from a state document, evidently a decree or official letter issued by the caliph al-Ḥākim: من عبد الله ووليه المنصور ابي علي الامام …
Recto: Probably original usage. State document, specifically the ending lines of a petition in Arabic script. The raʾy clause is preserved: "al-ʾārā al-sulṭāniyya". Reused for …
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. ~4 lines preserved. Refers to al-dīwān al-Mustanṣirī. On verso there is piyyut. Likely related to the cluster T-S H11.90 + …
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Part of an official document in Arabic script. The ends of ~6 lines are preserved. Mentions a canal (khalīj). Also mentions the kiswa twice. The …
Letter or petition to a vizier, possibly al-Afḍal. Approximately three lines are preserved from the opening praises ("... al-Afḍaliyya... Kāfil Quḍāt al-Muslimīn wa-Hādī Duʿāt al-Muʾminīn..."). …
Verso (original use): Draft of a petition or other state correspondence in Arabic script, containing conventional praises and blessings for a powerful person. Recto: Draft …
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 …
Receipt in Arabic script (waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr) in the name of Ibrāhīm b. Sunbāṭ al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), the Maghribī Jew, dated Ramaḍān 442, …
Tax receipt (tadhkira) from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on a dyeworks (maṣbagha) in Sinnūris. Dated: 28 Shawwāl 401 (4 …
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State document, in a chancery hand with wide line spacing. Needs examination.
State document, probably a decree. In Arabic script, in a chancery hand. Huge letters and wide space between the lines. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic literary …
Small fragment possibly from an official letter/report. Mentions "waṣala al-nāṣiḥ/al-nāḍij(?) Masʿūd(?)...."
Remnant of a state document, likely a decree. The first words of four lines are preserved, with huge line spacing. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Tax-related accounts in Arabic script. The word "al-mustakhraj" appears at least twice. Needs examination.
Unidentified official-looking document in Arabic script. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ with Judaeo-Arabic heading גירה. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small fragment of a state document, probably a report. Refers to a military man: "min rijāl al-ʿasākir al-muʾayyada." Verso may be a distinct document.
Bottom of a state document. 4 lines preserved. The first line refers to the execution of an order and the sender's deference to the decision …
List of names and money received, accounts for the state silk monopoly in Alexandria (which is confirmed by the term "Khazīna" in the fourth scan …
Subsequent use, probably: Drafts of petition text in Arabic script addressed to al-maqām al-[...] al-Ḥāfiẓī (dating to the reign of al-Ḥāfiẓ, 1132–49). On the other …
Fiscal register. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there.Reused for piyyuṭ. This one reads: 2/3 + 1/4 dinars; [In the …
State document, in Arabic script. Either the beginning of a petition (a basmala then al-ʿabd al-mamlūk yu[qabbil]) with massive line spacing, or simply a draft …
Fatimid state document. Needs examination. Reused for a memorial list (see PGPID 19130).
Draft of a long report on fiscal matters. The addressee is addressed as al-maqām al-sharīf (l. 17). The sender (al-mamlūk) describes his dealings with a …
Petition from the Jewish physician Sulaymān b. Mūsā. In Arabic script. He reports that he "was raised among the physicians of the hospital (māristān) in …
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A few words in Arabic in a chancery hand ("the order of this [...] arrived..." / وصل امر هذا), possibly from a state document or …
Fiscal accounts relating to agrarian administration for the kharājī year 430 (spanning the lunar years 431 and 432 AH, corresponding to 1039–41 CE) issued by …
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…
Official letter in Arabic script in a chancery hand, with wide line spacing. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved.
Verso: Remnants of a state document (two lines partially preserved, wide line spacing) mentioning Alexandria. In the large blank space someone has practiced writing لا …
State document, in Arabic script. A jarīda. A lot is preserved on both recto and verso, but very difficult to read, mentions "kharaja al-amr al-ʿālī …
State document, in Arabic script. The perfumers/druggists (ʿaṭṭārīn) petition the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Ṣālīḥ (Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb) about the injustice of the notables (ʿurafa) who …
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
The slaves kiss the ground in the lofty, lordly presence of al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ, may Go…
Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. Mentions 'al-wilāya.' Reused on recto for a book list in …
A few enormous words in Arabic script, likely from a decree. It is a title and a name, perhaps Thiqat al-Dawla Ḥammād b. ʿAlī. Above …
Decree, probably. There is a single phrase in naskhī Arabic calligraphy (ʿabīd al-dawla wa-l-yaʿmal bihi....?). Reused for Hebrew liturgical text.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ḥasan b. Ṣadaqa in Fustat.
Official-looking small receipt. Needs examination.
May be a receipt (? istiqbāl) for rent for government property (=ḥikr / ground rent?) from Yūsuf al-Ṣayrafī (this is tentative, as the end of …
Draft of a petition or note, in Arabic script, asking for charity on account of the sender's poverty. At lower left the name(s) of the …
Petition in Arabic, with two lines well-preserved. Medieval-era. The preceding shelfmark T-S AS 186.57 was reused for alphabetical practice by the same scribe as T-S …
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 …
Petition from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the caliph al-Ẓāhir (matn only) defending his position against Yūsuf al-Sijilmasi, the Iraqi leader in Palestine. Dating: original document …
And as far as the argument in favor of the two synagogues and the two authorities is concerned, (it has already been refuted by) Ibn
Sijilm…
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