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A few words remaining from an Arabic state document. Reused on recto for Malachi 3.
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Petition to addressed to a noble woman, probably the Fatimid empress Sitt al-Mulk given the honorifics. In Arabic script. Written in two columns. The petitioner …
مملوك مولاتنا خلد الله ملكها
الخلف(؟)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عبد مولاتنا السيدة الشـ[ـريفة]
الملكة حرس الله ملكها وحرس عزها
وادام م…
The slave of our mistress, may God make her reign eternal
(al-Khalaf?)
In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.
The slave of our …
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Official-looking account. Needs examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Decree. Mentions taking something from the Amīr Makīn al-Dawla.
وحراسته ونعمته في [ ] من يد الامير مكين الدولة
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Draft of the opening of a petition or official letter. On verso jottings of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba b. Khalaf the Jewish [...] in Fustat for the year 507(?). Payment: 1/4 dinar.
Letter or state document in Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. Three lines are preserved. Mentions iqṭāʿāt and the year 589 H, if read …
Official report (or just a letter). Probably a draft. Written in 4 columns on a bifolio, with many lines crossed out and some of the …
Recto: Petition asking for firewood. "انهى ذلك ويقبل الارض بين يديها رايها الصائب في ذلك ان شا الله تعالى". Dating: Probably Mamluk. Verso: Accounts.
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 …
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State document, in Arabic script. Probably a part of a report or official correspondence. Reads in part: "as the elders of the Bedouins are aware..." …
State document in Arabic script. Three lines and the last word of a fourth are preserved. Mentions titles of the judge Abū Isḥaq (al-qāḍī al-rashīd …
Likely a small fragment from a state document. Similar two-column format as T-S NS 96.66 and T-S Misc.22.252.
Tax receipt?
Official receipt for Dāʾūd b. Yaʿqūb. Unclear for what. Dated: 524(?) AH. Needs further examination.
Official correspondence in Arabic script, addressed to a superior. Dating: Mamluk period, based on the migration of the tarjama to the right margin. The sender's …
Official letter, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of 3 lines are preserved; upslanting and wide space between lines. Probably mentions Sidon(?). Needs examination for …
State document(s). The main text on recto includes a name (Muḥammad... ʿAbdallāh...) and many fancy titles (sulṭān... al-imām... sanāʾ al-mulk.. fakhr... naṣr al-mamlaka... al-faḍāʾil sayyid...). …
Petition to a Fatimid vizier, opening lines only, addressed to "my lord the most lofty vizier, companion and loyal adherent of the commander of the …
Brief official report in Arabic script. Ends, "anhā dhālika wa-l-raʾy aʿlāhu." Dating: Likely Ayyubid or early Mamluk-era, based on handwriting and format. it seems to …
Small fragment of a state document mentioning the amīr Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn b. ʿUmar.
State document, in Arabic script. Five faded lines on a small paper fragment. Mentions the state official Fakhr al-Mulk. A Fatimid state official by the …
Verso: Fragment of a petition in Arabic, Fatimid-era, possibly from a woman (l. 2: وسوالها), or this could just be referring to a preceding mamālīk/ʿabīd, …
Possibly the last page of a copy of a decree (à la T-S Ar.40.37). Opens with a conditional clause (wa-lammā lam yuʾkhadh(?) al-amr...) and a …
Small fragment of an official-looking letter in Arabic script. On recto there is liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information in part from CUDL)
Decree fragment, beginning few words of nearly three lines preserved. Probably mentions "ilā Damish[q" in the first line. Requires further examination.
Small fragment of a state (or possibly very large legal) document: في باطنها المرغوب في. . .
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script. Contains the phrase "al-ḥamdu lil-lāh mustaḥiqq al-ḥamd."
Original use: State report or petition. In Arabic script. Nearly four lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. Refers to the arrival of a …
Small fragment from a state document; perhaps the tarjama of a petition from Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Ṣalaḥ. Reused to create a bifolium for a …
Small fragment from an official report or petition. The ends of 3 lines are preserved. المملو]ك ينهي . . .
Fatimid fiscal requisition for the dīwān al-jaysh, including information about an iqtā`. Contains a request for registration and at least one registration mark.
Two lines of a letter or petition in Arabic script (li-l-sayyid bin al-[...]).
Document in Arabic script, fiscal related. Text is arranged in columns with discrete entries, probably accounts of some sort. Needs examination. On verso there is …
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.
Upper part of an official (tax?) receipt, with ʿalāʾim and registration notes.
Petition, possibly, or a report. In Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. The document concerns the execution of an official decree (manshūr …
State document or letter in huge Arabic script. A portion of one line is preserved: ʿalayka wa-hādha maʿdūd(?)... Reused for piyyuṭ.
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 25 Ramaḍān 405. Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd …
Verso (original use): Fragment from a Fatimid decree of investiture for Abū l-Bayān Mūsā and another person, appointed rightfully (بما يقتضيه العدل ويوجبه الحق) to …
Verso: Fiscal document, 3 fragmentary lines with lacunae, in Arabic script. Mentions an amīr with the laqab Nabīh al-Dawla (though this title appears to be …
Verso: Official correspondence in Arabic script. Fragment from the lower right corner, with the beginnings of 7 lines preserved. Mentions a sugar refinery (maṭbakh), a …
Bottom of a petition or official correspondence - وانها المملوك ذلك بعد تقبيل يده والحمد لله وحده . . . ولمولانا . . . Verso …
Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. T-S NS 327.63 Recto contains two documents headed by the glyph and with similar formatting. The upper parts of documents …
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. An order from the military administration: "min Majlis al-Ḥarb al-Saʿīd." There is an ʿalāma, scribbled out, between lines 1 and 2 of the …
Accounts in Arabic script. Fiscal?
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 …
Verso: Minute fragment of an Arabic document. Resembles the format of the Ikhshīdid fiscal documents but there is too little preserved to confirm. Reused for …
One line from the bottom of a large state document, likely a decree. Mentions the month of Ramaḍān. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information from …