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Tax receipt. ʿAlāma in the upper right, jahbadh signature at bottom.
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Verso: State document, two lines preserved and one partial line above. Due to water damage or perhaps long-term pressure and ink transfer, the document bears …
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Tax receipt, Fatimid, issued in Fusṭāṭ in the name of Saʿīd al-Afṣarī. Hint of a date at the bottom (23?).
Part of one line from a state document, perhaps a decree. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ
Possibly a tax receipt or an order of payment. Two endorsements, end of Dhū l-Qaʿda of the year 403 (?) 6x8 cm, verso blank. Item …
Probably a state/fiscal document. Mentions a date, then a space, then "al-jahābidha" (the tax collectors), then a space, then at the bottom a date span. …
Fiscal account, probably Fatimid.
Fiscal document. Multiple entries. Mentions: the receipt (wurūd) and expenditures (mā dufiʿa) of large sums of money; slaves (khadam); people such as Abū Bakr, ʿĪsā …
Upper part of a tax receipt, containing only the endorsements / administrative markings.
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 …
Two lines in Arabic script, possibly from a fiscal document. The second word may be dīnār." This is followed by the date 14 Jumādā II …
Tax receipt for Abū l-Riḍā b. Yūsuf (?). A date at the bottom: 5[..] AH?
Petition to a state official. In Arabic. After a taqbīl, the addressee is greeted with many titles ("al-majlis al-ʿādilī al-sayfī al-nāṣirī(?) al-kāmilī al-hādī"). The petitioner …
Recto and verso might be two drafts of distinct petitions written in different hands. Recto: Mentions "the evil ones from among the Jews" (al-ashrār min …
State document, probably a report. The beginnings of 9 lines are preserved. Concerning the opening of the canal (Fatḥ al-Khalīj, a major festival in Fatimid …
Verso (original use): Petition. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Concerning the synagogue at Dammūh and asking for orders/guidance (waṣāh). Perhaps having to do with …
Recto: State document, in Arabic script. Probably a report or petition. Dating: Mamluk-era, probably. A state official by the name Sanī al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj is …
Official correspondence having to do with provincial administration, mentioning farmers and their complaints and various amirs and "the ʿāmil" and "the qāʾid." Approximately a dozen …
State document in Arabic script. Refers to "the noble order" (al-amr al-ajall) and possibly the year 45[.] AH (=1058–67 CE). Needs examination.
Small fragment of an Arabic document, likely state-related as recto was reused by a prolific scribe who reused many other state documents.
Petition from Mubārak b. Ibrahīm Ibn Sabra to Muʿtamid al-Dawla, who seems to be a Fatimid dignitary. The sender asks for (or heavily implies that …
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Fragment of a state document, in Arabic script. Very difficult to glean much context but mentions sending something with someone "مع موصلها".
Small fragment from the beginning of a petition or a letter to a dignitary (... khāliṣat amīr al-muʾminīn adāma allāh ẓillahū wa-ayyada niʿmatahū...).
Official letter of the Mamlūk period. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "une lettre de l'epoque des mamelucks caucasiens (?)" ; on a separate small …
Document in Arabic script. Fiscal? Needs examination. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ, mentioning Ḥannuka.
State document, possibly a fiscal account in Arabic script. Large and well preserved. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. Needs examination.
Tax receipt issued to the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: (Khan reads 3 Ramaḍān 402). Written by …
[يثبت] نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف
ان شا الله
[اثبت و]المبلغ دينار واحد
[سوا]
والحمد لله على نعمه
[Let it be registered] on behalf of the Bureau of (Tax) Supervision,
if God wills.
[It has been registered, and] the amount…
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Small fragment from the top of a letter or petition. In Arabic script. Mentions a "dīwān".
Report. In Arabic script. Headed: al-ʿizza lillāh waḥdahū. Might be a draft, since there are some extra jottings in the same hand around the first …
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 …
Tax receipt for Khalaf b. Yaʿqūb. See ENA 3945.9 (PGPID 10485) for a list of related documents.
Small, official-looking receipt. Needs examination.
Official looking accounts in Arabic script. Listing names and quantities, presumably of money.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Musāfir b. Yūsuf in Cairo for the year 502, beginning 'tadhkira bism.' At the top, registration marks related to …
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 …
Fiscal register, in Arabic script.
Petition from the Jewish physician Sulaymān b. Mūsā. In Arabic script. He reports that he "was raised among the physicians of the hospital (māristān) in …
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Official-looking account in Arabic script.
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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Receipt of an amount received by the dīwān of al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-fakhrī. Probably dated 11 Dhū l-Qaʿda 557 H.
Official account mentioning the transfer of sums to the fisc (bayt al-māl) from the bureau of the capitation tax (bayt al-jawālī): "mablagh al-maḥmūl ilā bayt …
Recto: The beginnings of 4 lines of an official report in Arabic script. "When I found the districts in the aforementioned state..." (wa-lammā alfaytu l-nawāḥī …
Fiscal document, or accounts in Arabic script. Contains atleast two ʿalāmas. Needs examination.
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(?) …
Official-looking small receipt. Needs examination.
Tax receipt for Bū l-Makārim b. Bū Ishaq al-Mutaṭabbib, possibly for the purchase of a house in Fustat. Landscape format. Contains three registration marks at …
Letter/petition in Arabic script. Dating: likely mid- to late 12th century, based on paleographic grounds, the mention of Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Rav who may be …
Notes in Arabic script, recording the arrival of something ([...] bi-mā waṣala) at the funduq al-[daqīq or raqīq] al-Sulṭānī in New Cairo on the 13th(?) …
State document in Arabic script. Uses the phrase khidmat mālik al-riqq (see Khan, ALAD, 345, 368, 434 for meaning and other examples); and see T-S …
Report or letter between officials. In Arabic script, written in a chancery hand. Four lines remain. Surrounding the text and on verso there is a …