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Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Multiple registration marks such as 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih', praise be to God for his …
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Fragment containing part of the bottom lines of a Fatimid decree with very wide line spacing. The last line includes the beginning of the ḥamdala …
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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…
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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 …
State document, Arabic script. Decree of al-Ḥāfiẓ concerning the monks of Mt. Sinai. Al-Ḥāfiẓ orders his military governor of al-Ṭūr, Mutawallī al-Dawla, to extend his …
Fiscal account. Contains multiple entries, each marked with nuqila, “it has been copied.” Khan dates this document to the same period as T-S Ar.40.37, which …
Minute fragment of a fiscal document, probably. Mentions numbers in the 500s in multiple entries and a kharājī year. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic or Hebrew jottings.
Tax receipt issued for the mutawallī of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 21 Jumādā II 403 (). Tax year: …
State document, fragment, one isolated line in Arabic script. "والذي ينهيه عبد مولانا امير المؤمنين". Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ, the prayer for rain …
Official-looking note in Arabic script. Beginning "awrada al-shaykh X. . ." and ending with a date. Needs examination.
Official-looking document in Arabic script, most likely fiscal-related. Needs examination.
Letter or report. In Arabic script. Mentions a man from Tiberias by the name of Baysān, wicked people (fa-kathura fasāduhum), people who mentioned that they …
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Possibly one line of a state document. ""al-[...] bi-waliyy wulāt al-[...] ... istiḥqāq...""
Bottom part of a (tax?) receipt.
Verso (original use): Fragment of a state report. The ends of 6 lines are preserved: "...the ṭalḥiyyūn(?), and there did not remain in al-Ramla... Muḥammad(?) …
Document in Arabic script. May be a state document. Refers to "al-niẓām al-ḥamīd." Ends with a ḥamdala and a ḥasbala. Needs examination.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Trigger: addā.
Petition in Arabic script to "the master of the viziers" (sayyid al-wuzarāʾ). The sender swears by Muḥammad and his family but is himself a Jew …
Fiscal documents or accounts, in Arabic script.
ʿAlāma from a state document: al-thiqa bi-l-lāhī waḥdahū
Official-looking small receipt. Needs examination.
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Very elevated register. Approximately 8 lines are preserved, but few details.
Minute fragment of a Fatimid state document, probably a decree. Only the tail of a ي or a similar letter is preserved. Reused for Hebrew …
Probably an Ikhshīdid fiscal document. See T-S NS 139.65 (PGPID 23643), belonging to the same Hebrew reuse). Mentions dates, sums of money, and names such …
Commercial or official/fiscal account referring to names. Needs examination.
Copious jottings in Arabic script. It is not clear if there is any original document here or if they are all exercises of a chancery …
Small fragment from an official document, most probably a petition. The second line of the fragment is in a thicker script than the first, and …
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 …
Verso: Petition, in Arabic script. Large Arabic script on the top.
Booklet of psalms and other liturgical text. On fol. 3v, righthand side, there are various jottings, including one phrase that looks like it is from …
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The petitioners complain to the authorities that a certain person is corrupting their religious status quo (niẓām) and …
And it affects their order and makes it difficult for them
to adhere to their tenets of faith and demobilizes
their congregations. They seek fr…
State-related document. Receipt? Mentions Muẓaffar b. Hilāl b. Ḥusām al-Dawla and the town of Dahrūṭ.
Receipt or order of payment issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria. Dated 25 Ramadan/R[abīʿ] al-Akhr[?] 1235 AH which is 1819 CE. …
Farm estate accounting notes. TeL.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
State document, in Arabic script. A Mamlūk-era order (marsūm) from two amīrs to the overseer of the peasants' affairs in their area (al-fallāḥiyya was l-muzāraʿa …
المرسوم بالامر الكريم العالي المولوي الاميري الكبيري السيدي
المالكي المخدومي السيفي طقطباي…انجزهم الله تعالى الى [جمـ]ـاعـ[ـة ] المشائخ
والفلاح…
Bifolio from a fiscal accounting ledger. A jarīda (as mentioned on verso). Many entries preserved, several of which mention terms related to iqṭāʿs. Needs examination.
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script. Several headers begin "minhā" with an elongated horizontal line. Mentions wheat (qamḥ). Needs examination.
Recto: Petition, fragment. Perhaps involving the plunder and occupation of a house (....al-bayt wa-nahabū... ikhrājuhum ʿanhu... fa-mā li-l-mamlūk illā marāḥim al-mawlā...). The form of the …
Arabic letter, probably official correspondence based on the handwriting and the wide space between the lines. This is the upper right corner. Mentions something to …
Document in Arabic script opening with prayers for the caliph al-Āmir bi-Ahkām Allāh (r. 1101–30).
Two lines of a state document probably, based on format. Very large. But might also something poetical, referring to love: ḥālī yattaṣilhā l-hawā wa-l-maḥabba wa-ʿindahumā …
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 …
Report to the caliph Al-Ẓāhir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh in which a previous report is mentioned. Dating: ca. 411–27/1021–36. On verso there is an Aramaic midrash. …
The benedictions of God and his blessings, his most excellent greetings andincreasing benefacti…
State document, probably official correspondence, in Arabic script. Top of verso has an oversized script which reads "الى بعض الحكام" and the verso mentions "تنفيذ …
Petition (formula: al-mamlūk yuqabbil al-yad al-ʿāliya), 1106H (?)
Fiscal account, left-hand side only, written with wasteful line spacing containing the amounts two ḥabbas, one dīnār, and possibly the annotation nuqila.
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Official-looking accounts in Arabic script. Mentions al-ṣabiyy al-malikī.
Accounts in Arabic on verso and perhaps recto. Medieval-era. Requires further examination. Likely fiscal - one of the headers is mustakhraj.
Decree to a lower official. Fragment, end of the main section just before the date, left side only. Possibly Fatimid. Reused for liturgical poetry, azharot …