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Document in Arabic script, calligraphic. Likely a state document. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. The word "aʿrāḍ" appears. Needs examination. On verso there …
No Scholarship Records
State document in Arabic script, an internal memorandum or report containing multiple hands. Containing (on the last fragment) the signature of the vizier Ḥusayn b. …
… if God wills.
My sufficiency is God. How excellent a keeper is he!
The slave of our lord and master the imām al-Mustanṣir bi-Allāh, commander…
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Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration mark - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh l-mutqin li-mā (badaʿ?)
Small fragment of official-looking correspondence (report?). Three lines preserved. Narrow vertical page with a wide right margin and wide space between the lines. Some phrases: …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Petition? Fragment (lower part). The sender's name is likely Bū Bakr b. ʿAntar (right margin). The main request seems to …
Three words of a decree or draft of one: fa-lammā intahā ilayhi. Reused for copious jottings in Arabic script and Hebrew script, including elaborate designs …
Small fragment of an Arabic document. Might be a fiscal account. Mentions the numbers 300 and 400.
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, wide line spacing, very fragmentary. Needs examination.
IB VI, 35. Fatimid petition to al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from India …
العبد المملوك
موسى بن صدقة التاجر اليهودي
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا
وسيد…
Mūsā ibn Ṣadaqa, the Jewish merchant.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The benedictions of God a…
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Fol. 5: Official-looking report in Arabic. Refers to receiving a petition from a man "whom he (i.e., I) had taken under my protection (iṣṭanaʿahū) and …
Verso (probably original use): Account signed at the top by Ḥannā b. Mīkhāʾīl, probably identical with the jahbadh Yūḥannā b. Mīkhāʾil known from numerous other …
State-issued receipt, in Arabic script, late. Receipt of payment of Dawūd al-Yahūdī for the administrative section of Qalyūbiyya (al-Qism al-Awwal Qalyūbiyya).
Recto, with address on verso: Petition/letter from Muslim b. ʿAlī b. Muslim to Abū l-Faraj Mawhūb b. Yūḥannā. The sender is a state official or …
Small fragment of a petition or state document in Arabic script. One of the only phrases preserved is مراسمنا العالية. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. May mention 1000 or more dinars. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Report to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ from a military official. The sender refers to previous petitions, and also makes a new request for a rescript. …
[ ] When the gross receipts headed with the [noble] motto arrived [ ]
[ ] on the verso of the document of the director of stipends, the footsoldi…
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Recto: (1) Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic from Abū ʿAlī to al-Shaykh al-Makīn. Complains about al-Shaykh al-Mufaḍḍal. Nearly complete, but difficult to read because of the overlapping …
Verso: Petition, probably ("al-mamlūk..."). In Arabic script. Small fragment from the upper right corner. Mentions the word Ṣalāḥ, which may be part of the name …
Verso (secondary use): order addressed to the ʿarīf al-ʿaṭṭārīn ordering a half-ounce of saffron for the bustān of al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ. Comparison with Moss. IXa,2.37 (PGPID …
Recto: the remnants of two lines of an Arabic chancery document with wide spacing, probably a decree. The first line reads as "من حياطة دينه …
Petition or report addressed to a vizier (...al-Afḍalī al-Juyūshī...). Fragment from the top (the beginnings of 7 lines are preserved). Reused for piyyuṭ on recto. …
Letter fragment in Arabic script, likely state-related. Fragments of ~4 lines are preserved. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Official-looking receipt, maybe for someone's capitation tax. Very messy. Square format (closer to Ayyubid landscape format than the usual Fatimid portrait format).
State document in Arabic, probably. Medieval-era. Only one line is visible on the verso: بذلك جارية فيه على ما يكون. The recto was reused for …
Remnants of two lines of an Arabic-script chancery document, or possibly a mercantile letter (وما عليه من قماش(؟) يخصه ويخص سيدنا(؟)). In between, at ninety …
Fragment of a state correspondence, probably a decree, 5 lines, bottom-left corner of the document with traces of paper decay. Mentions the day of movement …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Extremely fragmentary.
Fatimid official report mentioning two messengers sent from the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira) to Damascus and also mentioning the Banū Hilāl. Probable join with ENA 3907.6 …
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Small fragment of Arabic correspondence, probably official. Reused by a serial recycler (see T-S 20.75 + T-S 20.70 (PGPID 31256)).
Verso: Small fragment of an Arabic document, likely state-related as recto was reused by a prolific scribe who reused many other state documents.
Small fragment of a (state?) document in Arabic script. Dated: 540s, 570s, or 590s AH.
Fatimid decree. The decree is from the period of al-Hafiz (1131–49) and mentions the congregational mosques of al-Ḥākim (in Cairo) and al-Ḥāfiẓ (it is not …
في المسجدين الجامعين الحافظي والحاكمي
فيضورك من تاخر جائهم فقد خرج
الامر الى الديوان بذكر ما عنده في ذلك
فاعلم هذا امر أمير المومنين ورسمه
In the two congregational mosques, the mosque of al-Ḥāfiẓ and the mosque of al-Ḥākim.
You will suffer if their arrival is delayed. For the order
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Fiscal document, in Arabic script. The top reads as "ṭāʾifa Najrān al-qadīm". Also contains a cipher, probably related to archiving, on the top left.
State correspondence, probably from a lower state official to a higher subordinate because a rescript (tawqīʿ) is mentioned in the last line, but it could …
Petition in Arabic script. The sender's name may appear between lines 2 and 3 (ʿabduhu Khalaf....?). May mention Qalyūb (l. 3) and mentions merchandise and …
Recto: Petition. The endings of 5 lines are preserved, with a raʾy clause at the bottom. The nature of the request is unclear, but requests …
Document in Arabic script. Dating: likely ca. 13th century Ayyubid. An official account of some sort, probably related to state produce, "مما يتحصل من الغلات …
Tax receipt, late Fatimid, for the jizya payment of a Jewish person (name difficult to read), with registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq', praise …
Tax receipt. From the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Official report to a superior concerning the ḍamān in Damīra. Complete. The writer, in deferential chancery style, reports to a superior authority on matters relating …
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 …
Verso (original use): Provincial fiscal account concerning the maintenance of the dikes (ʿimārat al-jusūr al-maʿmūra) in the districts of Shubrā and one other by the …
جمل
ررفعه(؟) عبد الكريم بن نصر الله الوكيل على عمارة
الجسور المعمورة ىاحىوىه(؟) وشبرى وابو ركوة
من الخراج لمركزية (…
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Provincial fiscal account. Provincial because the scribal hand is less sophisticated than the documents produced in the capital. Mentions "dīwān bi-rasm" and maybe "al-muqṭaʿyn". Could …
Capitation tax receipt, Fatimid. For Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Petition to the caliph al-Āmir (1101–30) from a woman attempting to collect a large debt of 241 dinars on the estate of a deceased person. …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1 بسم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحيـ[ـاته على مولانا]
وسيدنا الامام الامر باحكام الله امير الم…
Recto: Petition in Arabic script from "the son of one of the doctors" to two addressees. The petitioner mentions his desire to open a shop …
Fiscal account, fragment from a bifolio. Items include names (Yūsuf [...], Faḍāʾil [...]) and quantities of dinars expressed in words.
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Difficult hand. Portions of 5 lines are preserved. It could be a draft or was later reused for …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: …