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Tax receipt, Fatimid. For Hiba b. Yūsuf. Trigger: addā. Year: 547 (?). See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
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State document, in Arabic script. A petition asking for a rescript, probably directed directly to the caliph, because of the raʾy formula towards the end. …
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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: …
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 …
Receipt for the capitation tax. For the silk worker Bū Naṣr b. ʿUmar al-Yahūdī. Dated: 507 AH, which is 1113/14 CE.
Fragment of a state document, fragmentary lines preserved. The word "al-Nawāḥī" is visible. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic fragment. . Probably a letter. The name Eliyyahu …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Mūsā b. Lāwī (Moshe b. Levi) the Jew in Fustat. ʿAlāma at upper left: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq. Dated: …
Document in Arabic script, perhaps a state petition, beginning with "wa l-mamlūk yasʾal l-tawfīq" and mentions a wall "ṣūr"; reused for poetry in Judaeo-Arabic (see …
State document, in Arabic script. A decree concerning the monks at Mt. Sinai. The vizier Ṭalāʾiʿ orders the amīr ʿIzz al-Mulk Saʿd al-Dawla wa-Fārisuhā, governor …
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Small fragment with various kinds of Arabic text on it. Recto may be poetry or prayers (...اذا ما رمت ادراك...), written with diacritics and vowels. …
State document, ending line of a petition containing the raʾy clause. Hebrew liturgical text on verso.
Small fragment possibly from an official letter/report. Mentions "waṣala al-nāṣiḥ/al-nāḍij(?) Masʿūd(?)...."
Verso: fragment of an account mentioning, at top, the end of the month of Shaʿbān 403; below, after a blank space, a payment of 102⅓ …
واخرها شعبان سنة ثلث واربعمية
من العين ماية ؟
ثلث
الناىب … الدعوة …
حسبني لحكم العزيز حسابا في الشهر اربع ماىة
نصف وثلث
من ج…
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 …
Sugar accounting from the administration of the Ayyubid sultan al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb (al-Dīwān al-Ṣāliḥī al-Saʿīdī ...). The dating is established by comparison with TS AS 183.83 …
Fol. 7v: Fragment (9 lines) from an unusual state document. Mentions the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira) and contains many Greek/Coptic numerals, which is atypical for fiscal …
Likely a fiscal document. About half a dozen damaged lines are preserved. Several numbers are mentioned and the words "ṣanīʿat... mawlāy ḥaḍrat..." Needs examination.
Possibly a petition in Arabic script. Dating: Ayyubid or Mamluk-era? At the top: [...] Manṣūr(?) b. Abū l-Ṭayyib al-mutaʿalliq bi-dīwān al-[...]. Mentions blessings for the …
State (tax?) receipt. Dated: 9 Muḥarram 545 AH = 8 May 1150 CE. Needs examination.
Decree. The beginnings of 5 lines are preserved (...waṣala ilā thaghr...). The word "kiswa" appears - referring to the covering of the Kaʿba? Reused for …
Top of a tax receipt. There is a lot of text. Might be from the dossier of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb? Needs examination.
Original use: Closing of a state document, in Arabic script. Contains a ḥasbala and a ṣalwala. Dating: mentions 25 Shawwāl 446 AH = 27 January …
State document, in Arabic script. 11 lines of official correspondence in a chancery hand, probably a report of some kind. The preserved document was chopped …
State document, in Arabic script. Maybe a letter or petition. Begins with "yunhī", mentions "sulṭān" and something being in the possession of infidels "fī aydī …
Tax guarantor contract (kafāla wājiba "binding guarantee" or "obligatory surety," line 6). Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 431 AH (1040 CE). Two individuals, ʿĪsā ibn Ḥajjāj and …
اعترفنا عندي المقرين بذلك وكتب مسلم بن الحسين بن محمد الـ…ـي
والحمد لله وحده
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
ضمن لمولانا وسيدنا الامام ا…
Fragment of a fiscal account. Reused for various jottings and pen trials in Hebrew script. Needs examination.
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script. Some numbers are written out in full and others in Greek/Coptic numerals. Verso looks like a private reuse and includes …
State document, Fatimid period. Petition to a vizier of Al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh from a baker in Fusṭāṭ concerning a debt that he had incurred with …
The slave
Abū ʿAbdallāh, the baker from Fusṭāṭ.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The benedictions of God and his ble…
Bifolio of official-looking accounts in Arabic script. Needs further examination.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Dāʾud b. Efrayim(?) in Fustat for the year 526(?) AH.
Tax receipt. Mentions the mustakhdim al-jawālī in Damietta. Dated: 601 AH. Amount: 1.25 dinars. ʿAlāma: الحمد لله وبه استعين. Endorsed across the text rather than …
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 …
Verso: State document, in Arabic script. Six lines from the bottom are preserved, with moderately wide spacing and wasteful margins. Might be official correspondence. Reused …
Recto: Two drafts of the opening of an Arabic petition from Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-ʿIzz al-Yahūdī to the sulṭān (possibly al-Malik al-Kāmil). Dating: ca. …
State document, in Arabic script. The document is an official correspondence ending with a raʾy clause. The sender asks the addressee to be sagacious and …
حـ]ـسين بن جابر متولي الحكم وبجماعة يستوجب وكل استبانتهم عند[
ولا يكرمهم بهم شي كيف يسلونه ويلتمسون دينار بان اتصرف تجار(؟) القـ[ـند؟] هو …
State petition regarding a Maghribī Jewish trader caught drinking with a Muslim woman and imprisoned. Cuts off right before the request: there arrived from the …
State document, very damaged. Mentions an Amīr "al-Amīr", but rest of the name is not very legible. Also mentions "al-dawla al-zāhira".
State-related account, on one of the four pages of the bifolio: muḥāsabat al-mawlā [……..] al-muʿāmal/il bi-l-dīwān al-maʿmūr…..Needs examination.
Recto (original use): Petition or report preserving the ends of 7 lines from the lower part of the document. Concerns farming and safeguarding of land …
Official-looking document in Arabic script ("min jumlat al-wuṣūl al-[...]"). Needs examination.
Small fragment of official-looking correspondence, likely a petition. Mentions honorifics like "al-karīm al-ʿālī al-makhdūmī."
Official letter, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of 3 lines are preserved; upslanting and wide space between lines. Probably mentions Sidon(?). Needs examination for …
Document with a few lines of Arabic script on each side. Probably a fiscal account. Mentions 200 dinars on verso, and possibly a dīwān. Needs …
Petition to the Fatimid vizier Al-ʿAbbās requesting an allowance in grain to be paid to the petitioner in yearly installments. Dating: 548–49/1153–54. (Information from CUDL.) …
الافضلى السيفى الناصرى ا[لــ]ـكافل لقضاة المسلميـ[ـن الهادى]
لدعاة المومنين عضد الله به الدين وامتع بطول بـ[ـقائه امير المومنين]
وادام ق…
al-Afḍal, sword of Islam, the defender, the protector of the judges of the Muslims [and the guide]
of the dāʿīs of the believers, may God…
State document, report, in Arabic script. Chancery hand (though not the best), with widened space between the lines, and with white space used to divide …
Beginning formula of a pseudo-petition, in Arabic script. After the formula, the addressee is mentioned as "fulān" b. "fulān".
Verso: Fragment from near the beginning of a state document in Arabic script. Mainly preserving blessings for someone powerful (وصيانته ومراعاته وحراسته . . . …
Text in Ottoman Turkish.
Original use: Probably a small fragment of a state document in Arabic script, with one phrase preserved beginning وليعمل بموجبه.
Verso: Official-looking receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣabbāgh for the rent of his shop. On recto there is an earlier (state?) document, in Arabic script. Mentions …