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Tax receipt. Needs examination for details. Written on the back of an earlier (legal?) document in Arabic script, of which only the upper right corner …
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Blessings for the caliph or sultan in Judaeo-Arabic. Presumably practice for a petition (cf. Moss. IV,56.1 and T-S NS 110.26).
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Verso (original use): Lower left corner of a petition in Arabic script, apparently asking for charity or assistance for a woman: . . . . …
Small fragment of a state (or possibly very large legal) document: في باطنها المرغوب في. . .
Tax receipt probably from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb; only bottom part preserved. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 7 …
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Accounting document issued by the "qism awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s. In Arabic script. …
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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Recto: Note in Arabic script, possibly a miniature petition or report ("yunhī," l. 2). Mentions a jahbadh (end of l. 3). Needs further examination. In …
Possibly a fiscal account in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
State, document in Arabic script, probably a petition. Sort of a rudimentary hand. The petitioner renews the taqbīl, "al-mamlūk yujaddid ta[qbīl]."
Verso: Petition fragment in Arabic script. Four lines are partially preserved. The petitioners are requesting something to do with the qaṭīʿa and iqṭāʿ system, probably …
Small fragment of an official letter in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL)
Tax receipt. Needs examination.
Small fragment of an Arabic document. State-related? Verso contains accounts in Arabic script and unidentified text in Hebrew script.
Fiscal register. (Compare AIU IV.C.453, T-S NS 243.75a, T-S NS 198.61, ENA 2886.1–7, T-S NS 71.64, T-S NS 198.61, T-S 8H22.18, Moss. IV,151.1, Moss. IV,252.1, …
Petition, or a regular letter resembling a petition. In Arabic script. Tarjama in the right margin, but the sender's name is not clear (ʿIzār? ʿIdāl? …
Three fragments, of which one (with another one stuck to it) is part of a state memorandum, petition or decree containing the phrase al-imām al-Ḥāfiẓ …
Decree fragment. The beginnings of three lines are preserved on recto (mentioning al-Ramla): الرملة وف . . م . . من ظهر . . وتحصيله …
State document, in Arabic script. Two fragmentary lines.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Verso (original use): Small fragment of an official-looking Arabic letter. Parts of four lines are preserved. May mention Barqa (unless this is something like "bi-riqqihī"), …
]علي بربـ[
]لى برقة ويقطع البلاد
]اث الله عليه محابة(؟)
ـ]ـن فاعلمهم ان العذر (الغدر=alt) بين
State document with a header invoking the name of al-Qāḍī al-Ashraf thiqat al-imām. The main text is barely three lines long, followed by sums and …
A few words possibly from a state document in Arabic script. "... al-murtaḍā al-kāshif..."
Possibly a fiscal document. Mentions the kharāj. Needs examination.
Verso: Probably a fragmentary state document, mentions al-Majlis and beginning of a date "bi-tārikh". Recto: Regarding selling of a slave girl. (AA)
Two fragments of a Fatimid order/decree to a lower official. Mentions the caliph's estates (probably mentions its overseer). Repurposed as two folios for Hebrew liturgical …
التوجه الى الاعـمال الخيرية وحضور مجلس خدمة الا[مير
النجيب سيف الملك ليث الدولة وشجاعها ذي العزم
صنيعة امير المومنين…
turning to charitable works (or: the districts of [...]?) and presenting to the majlis al-khidma of the
noble a[mīr] Sayf al-Mulk, the sword of t…
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Long letter from one government official to another. In Arabic script. The name Abū l-Ṭāhir appears in the address (likely the addressee). It seems that …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Refers to two iqṭāʿs (على الاقطاعين المذكورين). The last line bears a date that may be 403 AH or 430 …
Draft of a petition or note, in Arabic script, asking for charity on account of the sender's poverty. At lower left the name(s) of the …
Small fragment of an Ikhshīdid fiscal account. See tag for similar documents. This one mentions the year 329 AH = 940/41 CE. Reused for unidentified …
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 …
Verso: Fragment with 4 lines of a state document in a chancery hand regarding issues pertaining to agriculture "an qad zaraʿ fī l-kufr l-madhkūr thalatha …
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 …
Brutal document. Probably to do with fiscality. Looks official and Mamluk-era based on paleographical grounds. Needs examination.
Small fragment of Arabic correspondence, probably official. Reused by a serial recycler (see T-S 20.75 + T-S 20.70 (PGPID 31256)).
Fiscal accounting. Seems to regard a construction project for a government building (Dār al-Malik and maybe al-ḥujra al-saʿīda are mentioned on recto) and quantities of …
Capitation tax receipt for Faraj b. Sālim a Jewish silk worker (qazzāz) in Fustat. Needs further examination.
Top of a decree(?) fragment with a basmala and few honorifics: al-amr al-karīm al-ʿālī al-mawlawī. Probably Mamlūkī.
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…
Original use: remnant of a state document (fiscal register?). Very little is preserved apart from a date: the end of Dhū l-Ḥijja 546(?) AH, which …
Minute fragment of a Fatimid state document, probably (verso). Huge line spacing.
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script, possibly a petition. Contains blessings for the addressee: "li-ʿālim(?) khallaṣahu(?) li-ʿālamīn(?) adāma Allāhu saʿdahū wa waṭṭada(?)... majdahu …
Tax receipt for Abū l-Riḍā b. Yūsuf (?). A date at the bottom: 5[..] AH?
State document, probably a petition. Contains a taqbīl clause and closing lines starting with a ḥamdala and ending with a ṣalwala. Verso has jottings in …
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 …
A few words from an official Arabic document (ḥaḍratuhu... ʿuluwwahu...), apparently praises for an addressee, so from a report or petition. Reused for Hebrew literary …
Decree, probably. Only a few enormous words are preserved, including ʿalayhi. Reused for poetry in Judaeo-Arabic.
Petition from an Alexandrian coppersmith. Dating: Fatimid-era based on structure and paleography but could be Ayyubid. The titles of the addressee match that of an …
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Fiscal account dated 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 404 AH = 11 May 1014 CE if read correctly. Apparently for military spending (nafaqāt), mentioning the Baḥrī and …
Fiscal document, or accounts, in Arabic script. Contains a date in the second line. Needs examination.