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Likely an official report. Mentions al-Amīr ʿAfīf al-Dawla Mutawallī al-Bāb (=Ṣāḥib al-Bāb = al-Wazīr al-Ṣaghīr = 'head chamberlain'). The document is written in a very …
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Formulary or draft of the opening of a petition to a vizier and qāḍī. Cuts off right after the "wa-yunhī."
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Recto: Arabic prayer (يا قادر على كل شي لا اله الا انت . . . وينصر الاسلام نصرا . . . اهل بيت محمد . …
Clockwise from upper left: (d) Small fragment in Arabic script, perhaps from a petition or draft: ...al-sāmī bi-faḍlihā...
Official correspondence about agricultural administration. Needs examination.
Fiscal account?
Verso (original use): Document in Arabic script, likely fiscal. Needs examination.
Official-looking account in Arabic script. Mentions al-shaykh Abū Saʿd (the Tustari?) after the basmala. Needs examination.
Account, maybe official/fiscal. Mentions the eunuch (al-ṭawāshī) Sanad al-Dawla or Sayyid al-Dawla (cf. T-S Ar.39.206 (PGPID 20812)). On verso mentions wheat and fava beans.
Fiscal account in Arabic script. One section is headed "māl al-jawālī" (revenue from the capitation tax). Reused for Hebrew jottings.
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. May mention 1000 or more dinars. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 16 Ṣafar 404. Written by the …
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Receipt of some kind.
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: End of Dhū l-Qaʿda 404. Both the recto …
State document, in Arabic script. Wide line spacing in a chancery hand beginning with a basmala. Reused for Arabic text and Coptic numerals. Needs examination.
State document, in Arabic script. One line in chancery script.
Official report in Arabic script. Blaming a spy named Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Ḥammāra and one other person for betraying Damietta to the Franks and possibly …
Small fragment in Arabic. A few words in a chancery hand.
State report or petition. The ends of ~7 lines are preserved, widely spaced, written in a chancery hand. Possibly a complaint about people taking over …
State document, in Arabic script. Report or official correspondence. The ends of ~14 lines are preserved. Includes many fiscal-related terminologies, "al-dīwān al-maʿmūr", "min al-ḥisāb", "[D]īwān …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Dated: 501 (?). Capitation tax in Fustat. Two registration requests, two ʿalāmas. Trigger: ṣaḥḥa. Glyph at the top.
Fiscal accounting: "...al-muʿāmilīn bi-[...] wa-Dimyāṭ..."
Fragment of a state document in Arabic script. ENA 2846.1 (PGPID 40432) and ENA 2846.2 (PGPID 40433) likely join; it is unclear if they are …
Small fragment of an Arabic state document.
Verso: Fragment of an Arabic state document. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
State document, in Arabic script. Record of an ordinance dated Ṣafar 537 AH (= September 1142 CE) from Al-Ẓāfir to instruct Al-Hāfiẓ’s book warehouse to …
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Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Probably an official report in Arabic script. Approximately 6 lines are preserved, but very faded and hard to read. Needs examination. Reused on verso for …
Small fragment (upper left corner) of an official receipt. Might refer to dyeing (ṣabgh).
State document, fiscal. Maybe concerning two months of agricultural taxes. Dated: looks like 403 AH, but this should be checked. The main text after the …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. [...] in Fustat.
State document, in Arabic script. Decree. "...the manshūr was drawn on 23rd Dhū l-Ḥijja" (.....ينسخ....المنشور موقع بتاريخ ثلث وعشرون من ذي الحجة).
State document (fragment) in Arabic script, perhaps a decree. The beginnings of ~9 lines are preserved, with very wide space between them. Reused on recto …
Tax or other receipt, probably. Needs examination.
Petition from an impoverished army veteran who had served in ʿAsqalān, possibly to the vizier Ibn al-Salār (r. 1149–53). 1153 is a terminus ante quem …
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Probably late 12th or 13th C. Mentions tawqīʿ at least twice and the purchase and price of timber (ḥaṭab). …
Document in Arabic script, likely a petition or official correspondence. Dating: late Ayyubid or Mamlūk era based on paleography.
Receipt in Arabic script for a payment by Mūsā Naʿīm, dated 1824/25 CE (the end of Muḥarram 1240H). The receipt was issued by the state …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a fiscal document headed "māl al-kharājī."
Petition addressed to a Jewish dignitary. Dating unknown. The document is mainly in Arabic script but interspersed with biblical quotations and phrases in Hebrew. The …
Accounts of some sort in official-looking Arabic script.
Recto: Leviticus 23:9-17. Verso: official Arabic document concerning monetary matters. (Information from CUDL)
Petition in Arabic script. There are multiple senders, evidently Jewish. Much of the remaining text is formulaic. They refer to khurūj al-amr al-ʿālī ('the issuing …
State document in Arabic script. Mentions Arslān b. Khuṭlukh of the 'old' Ḥāfiẓī regiment (ṭāʾifat al-ḥāfiẓiyya al-qudamāʾ"); the estate/town (ḍayʿa) known as Sumusṭā in Middle …
].بو الارسلان بن خطلخ من طايفة الحافظية القدما
] واجبة في الضيعة المعروفة بسمسطا من الصعيد الادنا
على حكم الاستمرار بها..وفي السنة
من…
State document, in Arabic script, from the private archives of the Karaite community in Cairo. The document is a decree from the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir …
Tax receipt for the Jewish man Yūsuf b. Daʾūd for his capitation tax in Fustat. The date is given twice (51[.]?).
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 …
Letter/petition in Arabic script. Dating: likely mid- to late 12th century, based on paleographic grounds, the mention of Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Rav who may be …
Official Ottoman-era accounts concerning the produce of the city of Lajjūn (qāʾima mubāraka in shāʾ allāh taʿālā bi-muqāsamat al-ghilāl al-mawjūda bi-madīnat al-Lajjūn al-makhdūma(?) al-dīwān al-saʿīd …
Official letter. Maybe a petition? Dated 4 Shaʿbān 566 (or 567 or 568?) AH, which is 12 April 1171 CE, if read correctly. The tarjama …