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Described in PUDL as a letter from a slave to his master regarding administrative matters.[Described on the paper wrapper as: "lettre d'un esclave à son …
No Scholarship Records
Possibly a tax receipt. Quite faded.
Fragment from the top of a petition, or petition-like letter, from Farajallāh.
Beginning of a petition addressed to the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Beginning lines only. On verso, there is literary text in Hebrew. For the formula "al-ḥaḍra …
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Recto: Upper part of an official letter/report. In Arabic script. The handwriting looks Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. Moderately wide line spacing. Opens with a taqbīl and …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba b. Khalaf in Fustat. Dated: 503 or 530 AH.
Official (tax?) receipt for someone possibly named Ḥayyim in Fustat. Needs examination.
Both recto and verso appear to be receipts for the capitation tax in Fustat and Cairo for the year 630 AH = 1232/33 CE. Recto …
Recto: State document, in Arabic script. Probably a report or petition. Dating: Mamluk-era, probably. A state official by the name Sanī al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj is …
Receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Amount: one-quarter, one-sixth and two ḥabbas (Khan …
Fragment of a state document, most likely a report. Reports on the arrival or order for produce "ghalla", of a certain district "bi-ʿamal". The first …
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Petition addressed to Saladin (al-Malik al-Nāṣir). From Maḥmūd b. Mamdūd who describes himself as a warrior in the path of God (al-mujāhid fī sabīl Allāh). …
State-issued receipt. Record of a ḥawāla transaction between Yeshūʿa the Jew (aka Shaʿyā Moṣeri) and Bilāl Agha Katkhuda (Ott. Tr. Kethüda) recorded at the Dīwān …
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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 …
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom.
Bifolio (subsequently folded into thirds) of an eclectic selection of incomplete state-related documents. Fiscal accounting, and an entry concerning a claim made from al-Ṣināʿa al-Maḥrūsa …
يتم(؟) كتاب(؟) الغلات
بجزيرة بني نصر والبحيرة
مما تسلمه مبارك
وغطريف من جملة المستخدمين
بالزكات السامي
عشر ويبات
بفضل …
Recto: fiscal document or state memorandum mentioning a ḍamān and the name Maʿālī b. Yūnā (?). Reused for a tax receipt issued for 402H written …
State document, bottom fragment, in Arabic script. "الذي لا يقدر فيهم على غيره... ومحاسبته على استقبال سنة خمسـ[...على ما استخرجه واحضر ما". The phrase "wa-muḥāsabatuhu …
Fragment of an official report, or perhaps a legal document with particularly wide line spacing. Sparse on details but is describing some situation involving a …
Receipt for Muḥammad b. Yūsuf. Needs examination.
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal or state document, referring to "[...] al-sulṭāniyya al-maḥrūsa," and the date Rajab 548 AH.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam in Fustat for the year 508(?) AH. Needs further examination. Same cluster: T-S AS 176.120, …
State document, probably, mentions "Miṣr". Reused for another Arabic script text, probably literary on verso. Needs examination.
Fiscal document in Arabic script. May mention a year at the top ([..]9), and elsewhere mentions various other numbers. In the main text block refers …
Account in Arabic script, probably fiscal based on the hand and the extravagant line spacing. The top line mentions al-jarīda al-madkhūra. L. 6 refers to …
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, …
Draft of a petition to the caliph al-Ḥākim, with tarjama and opening formulae. Recto contains a Hebrew legal deed (see separate entry). From Hibat Allāh …
بسم للهّ الرحمن الرحیم
بسم
العبد المملوك هبة الله بن
ابو منصور الیھودي
صلوات للهّ وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وأفض…
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: Middle of Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. Amount: one-third and …
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Verso (original use): Provincial fiscal account concerning the maintenance of the dikes (ʿimārat al-jusūr al-maʿmūra) in the districts of Shubrā and one other by the …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
جمل
ررفعه(؟) عبد الكريم بن نصر الله الوكيل على عمارة
الجسور المعمورة ىاحىوىه(؟) وشبرى وابو ركوة
من الخراج لمركزية (…
Verso (probably original use): Probably a small piece of a state document, "let it be copied. . . . God willing" (ينسخ ان شا الله …
Probably fiscal document(s). Needs examination.
Bifolio containing a copy of a decree (sijill muʿaẓẓam) of appointment issued by the caliph al-Āmir (r. 1101–30) at the behest of the vizier al-Afḍal …
Verso: Minute fragment from the bottom of a state document probably with the prayers for the caliph. Piyyuṭ on recto.
State document, probably Fatimid, fragmentary. In Arabic script. "Al-mustakhdam bi l-ṣaʿīd(?)". The name of the official could be Munjiz al-Dawla. Merits further examination.
Original use: Fragment of an Arabic state document with wide line spacing. Decree? The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved, including prayers for the caliph: …
Verso: Original use. A decree in Arabic script. Probably Mamluk-era. Recto: Small fragment with few lines in Arabic. Probably a recipe or technical instructions (based …
Small fragment of a fiscal account, probably.
Petition to Saladin from ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Yaḥyā, the Jew, a resident of Malīj, in the province of al-Gharbiyya, in the Delta. Dating: ca. 564–89 …
المملوك
عبد الباقى بن يحيى اليهودى
المقيم بلمليج
…
Fol. 2v is the closing formula of a state document with a ḥamdala and ṣalwala.
Fatimid capitation tax receipt for somebody's payment in New Cairo.
Makhzūma (official ledger of accounts). Probably related to military spending, mentions produce (al-ghallāt). In Arabic script. On verso, there are two validation notes (ṣaḥḥa dhālika...). …
Capitation tax receipt for Sulaymān al-yahūdī b. Mūsā al-yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib (?). Dated 24 Dhū l-Ḥijja 524 AH (1130 CE). Not authenticated at the top by …
Fiscal account, or possibly commercial. Mentions sums of dinars, places, and the phrase 'al-tawqīʿāt al-afḍaliyya.' Reused for magical text in Hebrew and unidentified (or nonsensical) …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Possibly mentions ʿAbdallah b. Manṣūr in line 4 after the basmala in line 3. Requires further examination.
Kharāj receipt. T-S AS 183.155 and T-S AS 183.156 are related (same payer). His name looks like Māḍī b. Fakhr الحىىي but this is tentative. …
State document, Fatimid, in large chancery script. Mentions the chief Fatimid judge and dāʿī Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Nuʿmān, and that his name is …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a petition from an unemployed person, "baṭṭāl bilā ʿamal". Mentions the amīr Fāris al-Dawla. The amīr Fāris al-Dawla was …
Writing practice or drafts of the formulae typically used in official documents with prayers for the caliph ("... al-ṭāhirīn... al-akramīn...).
Receipt of some sort: "afrada Ibrāhīm [...] al-maṭbakh..." Needs examination.
Fiscal document with at least three distinct sections. 1) The main text block concerns ships, requisitioning, ḍummān, and the officials charged with transporting crops from …