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Decree fragment: one line on verso. wa-ri'āyan li-kum[ ]. Cut, reused, and bound in a Hebrew script literary text: 15 lines plus notes on recto, …
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Bifolio with fiscal accounts. One page begins: "waṣala ilā [bayt al-māl?] al-maʿmūr min jihat Muḥammad b. ʿAmmār al-wakīl fī [...]," then the date: 413 or …
Fragment of an official letter, report, or petition from the medieval period. Barely any text is available to discern which of these document types is …
Verso: Fragmentary document, in a chancery hand. Typical closing formula of a state document "في ذلك ان شاالله". The second line could be a date. …
Fatimid decree (possibly in the hand of Ibn al-Ṣayrafī himself?). Two lines preserved. See also the separate PGP record for the letter by Yeḥezqel b. …
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State document, in Arabic script. A Fatimid decree, reused for a long liturgical text in Hebrew.
Fiscal document. Challenging to read. May mention sugar. Needs examination.
Official correspondence in Arabic. Wide line spacing. Four lines preserved: . . ذلك ولما حضروا واعادوا . . . قررنا الامر على ما كاتبناك به …
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..."). …
Tax receipt.
Recto: Official Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)
State document(s), likely Ayyubid. Recto might be headed "tawqīʿ" and may grant someone the right to engage in business with the price of shipping something …
A few words from a state document, likely a decree. On verso there is mirror-image Arabic text.
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 …
Petition/report in Arabic script, begins with a taqbīl formula. Addressed to [...] b. Muḥammad intriguingly called 'the agent (wakīl) of the sultan.' Dating: probably Mamluk-era …
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 …
Small fragment with a few words in Arabic script. Likely the prayers for the caliph and his ancestors from the end of a state document.
Decree, probably. Only a few enormous words are preserved, including ʿalayhi. Reused for poetry in Judaeo-Arabic.
Accounts of some sort in official-looking Arabic script.
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 …
Fragment from the bottom of a petition in Arabic script, containing a portion of a raʾy clause and blessings for the addressee (ṣalawāt allāh ʿalā …
Tax receipt for [...] b. Yūsuf.
State decree. Three fragmentary lines from the end of a chancery decree, probably addressed to a provincial official, mentions majlis al-naẓar (refer al-Qalqashandī, Ṣubḥ al-Āʿshā …
State document, in Arabic script. Pٰrobably the beginning of a decree with a basmala. "mā rāḥ ḥaẓẓuk fī l-ʿūlyā bi-muntaqiṣ", a variant of the poem …
Fragment of a letter about government business. In Arabic script. ". . . if he has it done by the jahbadh of the arsenal (al-ṣināʿa), …
فلو قام بذلك على يد جهبذ الصناعة لكان اصلح له ورايها الموفق
وبن بو الغنائم فقد سالته احضار التحرير المختص بالديوان المفرد
وحضوره ايضا اتف…
State document, in Arabic script. The decree of al-ʿAbbās, the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, concerning the monks of Mt. Sinai and ordering that no unusual impositions …
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Small fragment of a state document: "... al-awḥad Fakhr(?) al-Mulk ʿUm[...]...." Reused on recto for Hebrew text (parts of Psalms 27:1?). (Information in part from …
Government receipt attesting to payment of the government tax on the sale of an enslaved woman. Seller: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yaʿqūb al-Yahūdī. Buyer: Sumra bt. …
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…
A Fatimid decree fragment reused for the canon of Andreas of Crete, a ninth-century text, here in later copy. (Information from Naïm Vanthieghem and Marina …
State or legal document beginning with a basmala, then احضر ابو ياسر(؟) احد المزارعين بال . . . . . من جملة ال . . …
Verso: Minute fragment from the bottom of a state document probably with the prayers for the caliph. Piyyuṭ on recto.
Bottom 5 lines of an official letter in Arabic script. Ends with either a request or an instruction, ويفعل بذلك ما عهد من همته والله …
Petition copy or draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely early 17th century. The document is difficult to understand, as the first page is missing, and the …
Small receipt for the ḥikr (ground rent) payment of Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣāʾigh.
Tax receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd the Jew. Trigger: ṣaḥḥ. May mention the neighborhood al-Mamṣūṣa. The scribe is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbdallāh. The date …
Bifolio containing what look like fiscal accounts, in relatively narrow columns. Very difficult to read. Probably related to iqṭāʿ, mentions maqṭūʿāt on the verso. Dated …
Verso (original use): Document in Arabic. Tax receipt? The word 'mablagh' appears a few times. There may be a year in l. 2. Needs examination. …
Seems to be a state report on agricultural tax collection. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era based on formulae, names, and handwriting, but this is a guess. Seems …
Fiscal document in Arabic script. Mentions al-aʿmāl al-madkhūra in the main text block. Possibly a receipt with a signature at the bottom. Needs examination.
Tax receipt. Mentions the mustakhdim al-jawālī in Damietta. Dated: 601 AH. Amount: 1.25 dinars. ʿAlāma: الحمد لله وبه استعين. Endorsed across the text rather than …
Upper part of a tax receipt for Yaʿqūb b. Khalaf, a Jewish nightwatchman (ṭawwāf).
Probably an official receipt of some kind. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL)
State document of some kind. Fiscal account? Wide line spacing, small letters. Discrete text blocks arranged in columns. At least one of the text blocks …
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
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Probably the top of a petition or report addressed to the mutawallī of something.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Fiscal? Including short notes, names and numerals, arranged in two columns on each side. Some of the language …
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: 19 Muḥarram 533 …
Verso (original use): Fatimid petition, probably, with typical blessings for the caliph: Excerpts: ولنا من سيدنا الـ[. . .] . .. ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الاكرمين
Official report to an amīr who is addressed with many titles (al-muʾayyad al-manṣūr al-amīr Shihāb al-Dīn ʿumdat al-dawla etc.). The sender reports that he arrived …