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1451
State documentBodl. MS heb. b 18/21 + T-S Ar.30.278
Eight rough drafts of a petition to the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir from the followers of Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably the end of 1041 (according to …
- קד כאנו אלעביד אסתגארו אללה
- סבחאנה ובאלחצרה אלטאהרה
- פי אן תתצדק עליהם באלתצרף פי
- אדיאנהם חסב [[אכתיארהם]] מא
- יתסע להם ואן לא ימכן בעצהם
- א [2]
- قد كان…
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1452
State documentT-S H5.109
State document, in Arabic script. Draft, the scribe abandoned the draft after writing the first line. Reused for a Hebrew liturgical text.
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- كتابي اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ الجليل
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1453
State documentT-S NS 297.7
Receipt for the capitation tax. For the silk worker Bū Naṣr b. ʿUmar al-Yahūdī. Dated: 507 AH, which is 1113/14 CE.
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1454
State documentT-S Ar.42.158
State document. Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir regarding a murder on a boat. The son of the petitioner was traveling with a young fellow-merchant from …
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بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل تحياته على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستنصر بالله
أمير المومنين صلوات الله ع…
- In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
- The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and most excellent greeti…
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1455
State documentT-S AS 177.207
Small fragment from a Fatimid decree, containing only the phrase "[some verb from the root kharaja/'issue'] the decree/rescript to the Dīwān of [...]."
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1456
State documentENA 2808.68
Righthand fragment, recto (original use): Petition, probably. In Arabic script, with gigantic space between the lines. Portions of the last few lines are preserved. Mentions …
Righthand document (recto)
- ]....[
- ـ]عه واشهد على ثقة (alt=بقية) فيها
- [ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه الراي الـ]ـعالي في ذلك ان شا الله
- [الحمد لله]وحده وصل…
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1457
State documentJRL Gaster ar. 486
A few words possibly from a state document in Arabic script. "... al-murtaḍā al-kāshif..."
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1458
State documentBL OR 5566B.12
Petition from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī to Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin). In Arabic script. Has a tarjama at the upper left; 4 lines of introductory blessings; …
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1459
State documentT-S AS 111.37
Petition fragment. Contains part of a raʾy clause and a reference to Dīwān al-Shām al-Maʿmūr, and then perhaps "the response of the slave with what …
- ]ـته ورفعته عالي الراي في
- ]الى ديوان الشام المعمور واجابة العبد بما يمسكه(؟) و
- ان شا]الله تعالى
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1460
State documentT-S NS 327.82
May be a receipt (? istiqbāl) for rent for government property (=ḥikr / ground rent?) from Yūsuf al-Ṣayrafī (this is tentative, as the end of …
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1461
State documentJRL Gaster ar. 283
Fiscal receipt, in Arabic script. May contain a registration mark. Needs examination.
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1462
State documentENA 2747.16
Field-guide to taxation. Parts of two paragraphs. Written in a large, calligraphic hand. Collesis joint, suggesting it was once a longer rotulus, but also holes …
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- [... الوقـ]ـت الذي جرى الرسم باستفتاح الخراج فيه قدم استخراج
- …[نجـ]ـم من نجوم هذه السنة وما لعلّه يتاخر من مال الابواب في وقته وجمـ[ـيع الـ …
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- [ …(if ... at the tim]e when the levying comes at the beginning of the kharāj (cycle, i.e., the fiscal year), the collection is moved forward …
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1463
State documentT-S AS 176.57
Likely a state/fiscal account. One page is headed "ʿamal." Needs examination.
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1464
State documentT-S AS 178.45
Small fragment of an official (state-related) letter of praise/recommendation for somebody. Two lines are preserved.
- واقواله محمولا في تصرفاته
- باذلا نفسه في مصالحنا وقد
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1465
State documentENA 3954.7
Fragment of a letter about government business. In Arabic script. ". . . if he has it done by the jahbadh of the arsenal (al-ṣināʿa), …
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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…
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1466
State documentT-S Ar.39.446
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 …
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1467
State documentT-S AS 180.226
Tax receipt. Layout is that of the usual jizya (capitation tax) receipts, however this is for the ground rent (ḥikr) payment of a group of …
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1468
State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.12
State document or a legal document beginning with invocations and blessings upon Fatimid caliph al-Mustanṣir. The layout of the document in different from typical Fatimid …
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1469
State documentT-S NS 306.143
Recto: Official-looking receipt for a dyer (al-Ṣabbāgh) for the rent of his shop. Dated: Muḥarram 545 AH = April/May 1150 CE. On verso there is …
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1470
State documentT-S NS 305.8
Fragment of a petition. Portions of 8 lines are preserved, with different sizes of text and large gaps apparently dividing sections. Mentions "the Jews" and …
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1471
State documentT-S AS 176.294
Lower left corner of a petition.
من محابة والشكر(؟)
واحواله ومهماته منعما ان شا الله
الحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا]محمد نبيه واله الطاهرين وسلام
وحسبنا …
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1472
State documentT-S NS 297.36
State document, probably. In Arabic script. Dated: Looks like 527 AH, which would be 1132/33 CE. (This might also be a kharājī date.) The document …
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1473
State documentT-S NS 158.95
Formal letter in Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century based on handwriting. From ʿAbdallāh b. [...]. He reports that he has obeyed the …
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1474
State documentT-S AS 179.275
A few words from a state document (decree? fiscal register?). Specifically a number: 3[.]7, maybe 347. The text on recto is a mirror-image imprint from …
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1475
State documentENA NS 83.196
Receipt (for tax payment?) for a banker (al-ṣayrafī). Dated: 2 Rabīʿ I 507 AH, which is June 1113 CE (if read correctly). Needs further examination.
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1476
State documentT-S AS 136.294
Oficial letter in Arabic script (وما القول الان الا ان . . . له عن تفضله فيجعل ادام الله عزه . . . وافضاله فوالله …
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1477
State documentENA 3969.9
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
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1478
State documentENA 3700.1
Petition or report to the Fatimid chief qāḍī and chief dāʿī (القاضي الاجل المكين سيد الوزرا وتاج الاصفيـ[ـا قاضي القضـ]ـاة وداعي الدعاة علم المجد عمدة …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم توكلت على الله
كتب مملوك سيدنا القاضي الاجل المكين سيد الوزرا وتاج الاصفياء
قاضي القضـ]ـاة وداعي الدعاة علم المجد عمدة ا…
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1479
State documentJRL Gaster ar. 387
Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. Small fragment.
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1480
State documentT-S AS 178.9
Official-looking receipt maybe tax-related. Dating: maybe 547 AH, which would be 1152/53 CE.
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1481
State documentNLI 577.1/69
Fiscal document, probably, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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1482
State documentCUL Or.1080 9.11
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 …
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1483
State documentENA 3754.2
Mamluk or early Ottoman petition.
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1484
State documentMoss. VIII,229.1-2
Bottom fragment - state document, decree, in Arabic script. Four fragmented words reused for a Hebrew literary text. The text may read as "ان بقلم …
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1485
State documentT-S H7.48
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.
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1486
State documentT-S AS 127.11
A few words from a state document in Arabic script, mentioning the name Saʿīd (or likely urging someone to exert effort (fī dhālik ijtihād) to …
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1487
State documentENA 3971.23
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 …
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1488
State documentT-S Ar.35.142
Might be a fiscal account. Relatively small fragment from the middle of the document.
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1489
State documentT-S AS 184.249
Tax receipt? Might be dated 637 AH. Mentions المستخدم بمصر.
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1490
State documentT-S NS 306.70
Petition. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The petitioner seems to be a female slave (and not just a figurative slave/mamlūka): "wa-tunhī al-mamlūka annahā …
[العبدة المملوكة فلانة بنت فلان من ناحية فلان]
بسم الله الر[ـحمن الرحيم]
تقبل الارض بالمجلس الـ[ـشريف الـسامي الـ ]
وتنهي المملوكة ا…
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1491
State documentENA 3926.9
Fiscal register (possibly equivalent to what al-Makhzūmī and Ibn Mammātī call a rūznāmaj). Contains multiple entries, each with a date and a sum. Each entry …
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1492
State documentT-S AS 202.396
Recto: 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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- يقبل الارض بين يديها وينهي [..]مها وكبتب [حسدتها
- وهلكت اعاديها انها امراة منقطعة صعلوكة فقيرة لن
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1493
State documentT-S Ar.30.120
Verso (original use): Bottom of an official letter in Arabic, possibly a petition ("...wa-lahā ḥarasa Allāh ʿizzahā raʾyuhā al-mawaffaq al-kāshifa in shāʾ Allah"). Ends with …
- المذكور على فقه الشرع الشريف وموجبه وله حرس الله عزه الراي الموفق
- الكاشفة ان شاالله عزوجل
- الحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد نبيه واله وسلام
- حس…
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1494
State documentT-S Ar.40.125
Petition, draft. in Arabic script. Arranged in four columns on a bifolio, with additional text at 90 degrees in the space between columns. Mentions a …
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1495
State documentT-S NS 102.109
Fiscal document in Arabic script. Long vertical format. A few entries are preserved, mentioning sums of money. Reused for Hebrew literary jottings.
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1496
State documentJRL Series B 2056
State document, in Arabic script. Dating: probably Fatimid. Not a lot is preserved but the document seems like an internal government memorandum mentioning accounts and …
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1497
State documentMichaelides (charta) A169
Petition to the caliph al-Āmir (1101–30) from a woman attempting to collect a large debt of 241 dinars on the estate of a deceased person. …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1 بسم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحيـ[ـاته على مولانا]
وسيدنا الامام الامر باحكام الله امير الم…
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1498
State documentENA 3967.3
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
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1499
State documentT-S K25.23
State document, probably. In Arabic script. Wide space between the lines, 9 lines preserved. On verso there is Hebrew literary text. Very faded. One phrase …
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1500
State documentT-S AS 185.111
Fragment of official correspondence concerning the administration of Upper Egypt. The first four lines are mostly preserved. "It is necessary to write a noble letter …
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