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Lower right corner of a letter or petition for assistance. In Arabic script.
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State document in Arabic script. The first three lines only (kharaja al-amr al-ʿālī al-mawlawī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-[...] al-nāṣirī zāda allāhu fī. . .). (Information from …
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State document, in Arabic script, calligraphic, with diacritics and vowels. Late. "We have looked into these matters. . ." Needs examination.
] الله تعالى لما ارتضا]ه
الشريفة بشمول اليمن شملا ويميـ[
بسطة وتمكينا
الينا نظرنا في احوال اهـ[
ووفائهم بما عليهم م…
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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 …
Likely a small fragment from a state document. Similar two-column format as T-S NS 96.66 and T-S Misc.22.252.
State document, in an elegant hand with wide linespacing. Mentions "ارباع السلطانية لمصر". Reused for Arabic and Hebrew text on recto and verso. Needs examination.
Letter, unclear whether official business or private correspondence. Referring to the addressee's request concerning Bū Saʿīd. On verso there are drafts of documents including the …
Receipt in Arabic script, probably issued by a state institution. Dated: 27 [Ramaḍā]n 1249 AH with the month offered as an abbreviation (ن). The Dīwān …
Fatimid decree (sijill) of investiture, Judaeo-Arabic copy. Renews the appointment of a Jewish physician "to the headship of all the Israelite denominations: the Rabbanites, Qaraites, …
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State document, in Arabic script. Damaged/faded. About 8 lines are preserved. The document is probably a Fatimid petition requesting a rescript, "khurūj al-tawqīʿ" and mentions …
Recto: Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 20 Rabīʿ II 404 (17 October 1013). …
Registration mark on right
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Official document(s) in Arabic script. The layout does not seem to be that of a typical tax receipt. Needs examination.
Two fragments from the middle and bottom of a petition to a vizier. Dating: likely 1051–62 CE, as Daniel b. ʿAzarya seems to be Gaʾon …
Two columns of accounts, business or private, for Naṣr b. Simwāl, one under "lahu" 'he is owed' and second under "ʿalaihi" 'he owes'. 'ʾAjr' in …
Could probably be part of a decree. Fragmentary date preserved.
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 5 Rabīʿ I 404. Written one day after …
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Official state correspondence, beginning of two wide lines, chancery hand "al-ʿabd al-mamlūk". List or table on verso, requires examination.
Document in a chancery hand, wide line spacing, parts of four lines preserved from somewhere toward the middle of the page top to bottom. Generous …
The original text is probably an (official?) account in Arabic script. There are also several later lines of poetry or aphorisms (ان يركب البغلات قوم …
Petition in Arabic, twelfth-century Fatimid. The petition is addressed to a military general at the time of al-Mustaʿlī or al-Āmir. The petitioner is most likely …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
[صلوات الله وبركاته وافضل تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستعلي بالله امير المؤمنين وعلى ابائه الطاهرين]
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Receipt (for tax?) in Arabic script with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note at the top. The date is given but is difficult to read—46[.](?).
Decree fragment. The beginnings of three lines are preserved on recto (mentioning al-Ramla): الرملة وف . . م . . من ظهر . . وتحصيله …
Tax receipt for a payment of a quarter dinar for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī."
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. [...] in Fustat.
Decree fragment, one line, in Arabic script. "سعد من وحولها".
Official report in Arabic script. May mention Naṣr al-[...] b. al-Faḍāʾil b. [...] in the first line. Approximately 5 lines are preserved. On verso there …
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
…
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Petition from the wife of Ṭayyib b. Musallam al-ʿIblānī, a Khaybarī Jew, to the caliph al-Mustanṣir (r. 1036–94), seeking the restitution of money taken from …
Tax receipt, Fatimid for the sum of one-quarter dīnār (rubʿ)? Registration mark at the top left corner- al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran li niʿmatihi.
Register of ground rent (ḥikr) receipts for Manṣūr b. Muslim al-Zajjāj for his compound in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ with numerous tidy entries spanning a period of …
Fragment of a petition. Hard to piece together the story but contains various interesting references such as to the judges (al-quḍāt) and to عبد يشوع …
State document, in Arabic script. Almost three lines preserved. Probably a report. Mentions land tax "kharāj zarʿ". Part of the document reads as "فان سالتني …
Verso: Draft of a beginning of a report to an official, possibly a vizier, from a lower official. Beginning formula and opening honorifics are preserved. …
Verso contains the beginning of a petition. The tarjama appears at the right. The petition begins "yuqabbil al-yad al-ʿāliya al-mawlawiyya al-ajalliyya. . ." Recto contains …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a decree fragment. Contains one fragmentary line and the top of another. Reused for a Hebrew script document on …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Abū l-Munā(?) b. Yehuda in Fustat for the year 5[..] AH. Needs examination.
Fiscal document with several ʿalāʾim. Needs examination.
Small fragment of a document in Arabic, likely official. Mentions a shipment (ḥumūla).
Fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Portions of two lines are preserved: "... wa-yuṭlaq mā yajib li-baqiyyat(?) shuhūr... min māl...." Reused for a …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Needs examination for content. Reused on the other side for a Judaeo-Arabic narrative describing the surface of the earth, wells …
Receipt(s) for Abū Naṣr for the rent of his dwelling. In Arabic script. Very elaborate, with multiple sections on both recto and verso -- resembles …
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 …
Petition to a state official. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). All that is preserved is some of the titles of the addressee. "al-majlis …
Verso (probably original use): Letter or petition in Arabic script. To a dignitary whose titles are "al-karīm al-akhaṣṣ al-awḥad al-raʾīs al-mufaḍḍal al-makhdūm zayn al-dīn sayyid …
State document, likely an order in response to a petition or report. Stating that it has been confirmed that Sharaf al-Dawla Mūsā violated and oppressed …
Verso (original use): Probably a fragment of a state document, mentions al-majlis and the beginning of a date "bi-tārikh".
Draft of a state document, in Arabic script. Ayyubid era, addressed to Saladin. "الديوان الاجلي الناصري السعيد ادام الله علوا وشرفا في شهر رمضان سنة …
Fiscal document. Mentions a payment of 9 wariq dirhams a day for the month Ramaḍān al-muʿaẓẓam, for a total of 270 dirhams. Reused on recto …
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. Very faded. Fragments of ~5 lines are preserved, with wide space between the lines. Verso: Letter/report in Arabic script, …
Report from a Fatimid official. Dated: Dhū l-Qaʿda 495 AH (August–Sept 1102) — but this reading might be incorrect. Talks about the cutting off of …
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