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Recto: Ayyubid or Mamluk-era fiscal account. In Arabic script. Extremely neat and well-preserved. Mentions Dār al-Malik al-Muẓaffar and al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ. Needs examination.
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Looks like a state/fiscal hand.
Fragment of an official letter (upper left piece). In Arabic script. After the basmala one reads :ʾaṭāla llāh baqāhā wa-ʾadāma taʾyīdahā wa-ʿalāhā (l. 2), ʿārafahu …
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Most probably a Fatimid report, but written in a decree-like format, or could be a decree relating the contents of the report/petition, in Arabic script. …
الجزية الجارية اقطاعه لم يكن عليها
موظف جسور ولا حق ديواني[ مطلوب؟]
اهلها به من مدة سنين وان المستخدمين
الان قد طلبوهم بموظف الجسور وغريما
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State document, fragment, in Arabic script. Six lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. Might be a draft, since there are words crossed out …
عبد عبيدها ويبدو والقسم وجزيل العطا والنعم
فما ينفك عن عبد خلص ولاوه وحسن تلاوة وانعقدت على
المسابغة عقايده واراوه وتقلب في الطاعة بين سلف
مش…
Fragment of a decree. There is a single full word: "al-mustaḥabbīn."
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 …
Bottom of a piece of official correspondence. Refers to the prior night and three cubits (in reference to the height of the Nile?). At the …
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 …
Recto: State document? Accounts in Arabic script in a chancery-esque hand.
Petition or report, Fatimid, fragment from near the beginning containing end of blessings, the taqbīl clause, and part of the qiṣṣa. Dating: 1100–71. Related to …
Ḥamdala and ṣalwala from the bottom of a state document. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic calendrical text.
Lower fragment, recto (original use): Petition, probably. In Arabic script, with gigantic space between the lines. Portions of the last few lines are preserved. Mentions …
Fatimid state document with an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ka-mā huwa ahluhu). Many text blocks, many hands. On one side, l. 4 mentions al-Imām al-Mustanṣir Billāh …
Verso (original use): Official correspondence in Arabic script. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. (The text in between lines 1 and 2 is the …
Original use: State document in Arabic script. Secondary use: Responsa or halakhic discussion in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya discussing laws of purity of …
Bifolio. Containing an official order; probably a copy of a decree/sijill, but also written in an elegant script. Stating that Manṣūr b. Sahl, one of …
Decree. In Arabic script. Only a few words are preserved here (...ʿalā ikhtilāf...). Reused for a dirge by Yosef Ibn Avitor. (Information in part from …
Verso (original use): State accounts in Arabic script. Mentions ṣaḥḥa, followed by two ʿalāmas, one of which is "al-ḥamdu li-llāh walī al-niʿma"; there are state …
State document, in Arabic script. Draft, the scribe abandoned the draft after writing the first line. Reused for a Hebrew liturgical text.
Recto: Petition in Arabic script from "the son of one of the doctors" to two addressees. The petitioner mentions his desire to open a shop …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a fiscal document headed "māl al-kharājī."
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic ("... al-nabawiyya..."). Reused on both sides for Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
State document, in Arabic script. Probably late. Mentions "al-waraq al-sāmī al-Muʾarrakh". Needs examination.
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions a price, 90 pieces of gold, and "what we have observed is rightful". Reused on recto for Hebrew …
State or legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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 …
Small fragment of a decree. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic literary work.
ـ]ـامر حقيقا وبالاستخدام جديرا خليفا
Chancery or fiscal document, presumably Mamluk period. There are two lines preserved, consisting of a date (22nd Rajab is visible) and the ḥamdala. The text …
Verso: Minute fragment of Arabic-script text, possibly a decree, but late. Requires further examination.
State document, probably, mentions "Miṣr". Reused for another Arabic script text, probably literary on verso. Needs examination.
Official-looking receipt. Mentions arṭāl Miṣr, the quantity of half raṭl, and the occurrence of the transaction/event in the presence of a judge (bī-ḥuḍūr al-Qāḍī al-ʿazīz).
Fragment of a fiscal account. Concerning the elite military corps known as al-ghilmān al-ḥujariyya ("the slaves of the barracks"), a training academy for Turkish cavalry …
Capitation tax receipt. Trigger: tadhkira bism. Dated: 502 AH = 1108/09 CE if read correctly. For Abū l-Yumn(?) b. Baṣal(??). Needs further examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Right-side fragment of an official correspondence.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
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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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). …
Fragment from near the top of an official report or petition, mentioning the storehouses of the sugar refineries: ". . . ṣalawāt Allāh ʿalā mālikih …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script, beginning with "wuṣūl", apparently state/fiscal (mainly iqṭāʿ-related), though Greek/Coptic numerals are atypical for fiscal documents. The first entry is regarding …
وصول
لمقطع المحجرة(؟) من جملة ما عليه من مال الجسور
ثلثة وثلاثين(؟).....
من جملة
من التصرف وضمان(؟) العمل
اخذ باسم ضمنا برطس من جملة…في
State document, probably Fatimid. Closing formula of a decree, possibly, or another state document written in a thick pen. The preserved text is a ṣalwala …
State document, probably. It refers to itself as a "receipt" (wuṣūl). In Arabic script. Location: Dahrūṭ. Dated: Ramaḍān 533 AH, which is 1129 CE. (Also …
Complete letter/report in Arabic script written on a long, vertical strip of paper. Looks like a report to a high official or the draft of …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 20 Shawwāl 405. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl …
Let it be registered on behalf of the office of supervision,
if God wills.
They have registered the amount…
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A few words remaining from an Arabic state document. Reused on recto for Malachi 3.
State document, probably a fragmentary petition, in Arabic script. Contains a partial taqbīl clause and a name which may read as "al-Ṣāli[ḥī al-Najmī", the penultimate …
End of an official document (letter? petition?). Likely a date in the penultimate line: 4[..] AH.
Recto: Arabic prayer (يا قادر على كل شي لا اله الا انت . . . وينصر الاسلام نصرا . . . اهل بيت محمد . …
Official document, in Arabic script. The script is extremely difficult to follow, but it seems to be related to an iqṭāʿ as mentioned on the …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: …
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