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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: …
No Scholarship Records
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. …
Verso (original use): Letter, maybe official state correspondence. Begins "ʿaraḍa hādhihi l-mukā[taba]...." Mentions Jaʿfar b. Fattāh, only the beginning formula with honorifics is preserved. Ends …
بسم الله [الرحمن الرحيم
عرض هذه المكـ[ـاتبة(؟)
الاجل اطال الله بقاه[
وسموها وسناها و…[
جعفر بن فتاح اجل[
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Fiscal receipt, in Arabic script. May contain a registration mark. Needs examination.
Remnants of an Arabic chancery document. Probably from a long rotulus originally. Reused for Hebrew liturgical text. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Verso contains part of a large and beautiful ḥamdala and ḥasbala, likely from the bottom of a Fatimid decree.
A few words from a state document in Arabic script, mentioning the name Saʿīd (or likely urging someone to exert effort (fī dhālik ijtihād) to …
Verso (original use): Fiscal accounting document (or an official order for the release of funds?), complete with ḥamdala and ḥasbala. Dated: 5 Shawwāl 4xx (412?).
Very unusual account, written in large letters, likely fiscal. Perhaps wages for soldiers/mercenaries? Recto, upper section: -people's names such Masʿūd b. Manṣūr b. Sabʿ(?) and …
Petition from Ṭāhir b. Isḥāq, a poor man from Alexandria, to the amir Qarāqūsh Bahāʾ ai-Dīn b. ʿAbdallāh al-Asadī (his nisba derives from his having …
The slave
Tāhir ibn Isḥāq
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the lofty, mighty and sublime presence, the most g…
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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 …
Petition addressed to a dignitary. In Arabic script. The petitioner may be named Abū ʿAlī b Abū Bakr al-Bazzāz (the clothier). None of the standard …
State document, in Arabic script. Closing formula of a decree, which contains ḥamdala, ṣalwala and ḥasbala.
Recto: State document in Arabic script. Ends of 3 lines preserved. Perhaps a petition or report (...bi-l-nāḥiya yatawallā ḥiyāzatahā wa-ḍabṭa ajzāʾahā...). Needs examination.
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 20 Shawwāl 405. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl …
Registration mark on right
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State document, in chancery hand. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Probably a report mentioning the royal kitchen "maṭbakh" and lamb meat "laḥm al-kharīf." …
Verso (original use): Undeciphered document in Arabic script, likely state-related. Appears to be dated 427 AH = 1035/36 CE, which is consistent with the Hebrew …
State document, fragmentary. Three and a half lines preserved, difficult to glean context, mentions taking permission, "لانه حين اذن". Reused for a Hebrew text, on …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Khalaf b. Ghālib the Jew, a druggist (ʿaṭṭār) and something else (jabbān? jazzār?) in Fustat for the year 504 …
Tax receipt for a Jewish man Bū Sahl(?) b. Khalaf for his capitation tax in Fustat for the year 535 AH = 1140/41 CE.
Document in Arabic script. Petition? Needs examination.
Likely a Fatimid fiscal account. Difficult to read. As of July 2025 this fragment is not conserved and can be seen only in Cambridge.
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 …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Official letter on one side and accounting on the other?
State document, fragment of a longer text, dismembered at the collesis. What has remained is wa-mā tawfīqī illā bi-l-lāh. Possibly Ayyubid (tawfīqī billāh was an …
State document, probably a petition or official correspondence. First line - "al-Ṣāliḥī al-khidma li l-majlis". The second line has the word "al-Mamlūk kataba" written in …
State document, possibly a decree. Suggests orders conferred upon an authority: hayʾat (?) l-muṭālaʿa wa-l-āʿmāl bihā. There is Arabic script in another not-so-elegant hand and …
State document, probably a decree. In Arabic script, in a chancery hand. Huge letters and wide space between the lines. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic literary …
Verso (original use): Petition or official letter in Arabic script. Three lines are preserved containing praises for the addressee and his benefaction.
Verso: Fragmentary document, in a chancery hand. Typical closing formula of a state document "في ذلك ان شاالله". The second line could be a date. …
Fragmentary document, with huge line spacing, probably state document, late. The only readable word is "irdab", referring to the measure of grain. The preceding word …
Tax receipt(s)?
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Fragmentary. The sender seems to be complaining that someone has opposed him or will oppose him in conducting his business …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 17 lines are preserved. Dated: probably [5]32 AH = 1137/38 CE. Also possible is 432 AH = …
State document, in Arabic script. Eleven fragmentary lines, probably addressed to a higher official from a lower official. The official bears the title Ḥamīd al-Dawla. …
One line of text in Arabic script, from an official document or letter. Reused for a text in Aramaic on verso and another text in …
Recto: One or two damaged lines of Arabic text from a large state document, possibly a decree. Requires further examination.
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 …
One line in Arabic script: a ḥamdala and ṣalwala, probably from the bottom of what was originally a much larger state document.
Tax receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd the Jew. Trigger: ṣaḥḥ. May mention the neighborhood al-Mamṣūṣa. The scribe is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbdallāh. The date …
Original use: Official correspondence in Arabic script, mentioning Ibn al-Salār (vizier of al-Ẓāfir, 1149–53 CE). Needs examination for content. Secondary use: Literary text in Arabic …
Verso: Fragment from a fiscal report. The beginnings of 4 lines from the bottom of the document are preserved: . . . على غيره . …
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 …
Official-looking document in Arabic script, most likely fiscal-related. Needs examination.
Verso (original use): Official-looking accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals: ومنها ما استخرج في يومي السبت والاحد . . . (Information in part from …
Decree? In Arabic script, chancery hand, large letters and huge space between the lines. One and a half lines are preserved. It is difficult to …
Two very fragmentary lines of a state document, in Arabic script with wide line spacing and large script. A huge margin has been left to …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic, likely fiscal. Mentions fūl (fava beans) and jullabān (vetch) and shaʿīr (barley).
Tax receipt issued for the ḍumanāʾ of Sinnūris against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 26 Jumādā I 405 (Khan: 22 Jumādā I …
Registration mark on left
Probably an official receipt of some kind. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL)