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Verso: State document, in Arabic script. Three fragments possibly from a decree, including the word ملكها. May be a draft or writing exercise as a …
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Fiscal document, probably Fatimid. Two-sided with very wide line spacing. Recto mentions Nāṣir and two dinars; verso mentions two dinars and three irdabbs. Merits further …
Official-looking receipt, maybe for someone's capitation tax. Very messy. Square format (closer to Ayyubid landscape format than the usual Fatimid portrait format).
Recto: Accounts in Arabic script. Perhaps a state/fiscal document, since it's written in a chancery hand with wide space between the lines. There are date …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Official letter on one side and accounting on the other?
Verso: Official correspondence. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. Dating: likely ca. first half of the 12th century, based on the dating of recto. Mentions news …
State document, in Arabic script. A late Fatimid report The verso is probably annotations or reply to the report mentioning the caliphal ʿalāma: al-ʿalāma al-sharīfa …
Fiscal accounting: "...al-muʿāmilīn bi-[...] wa-Dimyāṭ..."
State document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text. In the hand of ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel?
Receipt for the capitation tax of Eliyya b. [...] in New Cairo and Fustat for the year 631 AH = 1233/34 CE.
Official-looking receipt for Abū Saʿd. Needs examination.
Verso (original use): Report of the death of a Jewish woman Ḥasana/Ḥusna bt. [...].
Recto: Official Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)
Verso (original use): Fragment of a fiscal document headed "māl al-kharājī."
A few words remaining from an Arabic state document. Reused on recto for Malachi 3.
State document, probably a petition or report, addressed to an official styled al-ḥaḍra al-sharīfa. Crumpled and faded. The sender was appointed to a position somewhere …
State document, Fatimid, in large chancery script. Mentions the chief Fatimid judge and dāʿī Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Nuʿmān, and that his name is …
Likely a fiscal document. In Arabic script. Needs examination. Reused for Hebrew blessings on recto.
Recto: Fragment, 11 lines in a chancery(?) hand, difficult to read. Needs examination. Perforated binding. Verso: Mamlukī names in pretty naskhī script on verso. Including …
Report to a Fatimid vizier. Dating: fifth/eleventh century. Khan published T-S K25.221 as the end of petition. Marina Rustow later found the join to the …
ولمولانا الوزير الأجل صفى أمير المؤمنين وخالصته ادام الله علاه وكبت اعداه
الراى العالي في ذلك ان شا الله
والحمد لله وصلواته على…
To my master, the mighty vizier, the sincere and intimate friend of the commander of the faithful, may God cause his exaltation to endure and crush…
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One line in Arabic script, reads as "المستنصر بالله صلوات الله عليه....".
Official-looking note in Arabic script. Beginning "awrada al-shaykh X. . ." and ending with a date. Needs examination.
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 25 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. The verso, written before …
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Fiscal document, or accounts in Arabic script. Contains atleast two ʿalāmas. Needs examination.
Verso: Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 (Khan reads 26 Dhū …
Registration mark on left
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State document, in Arabic script. Mentions an iqṭāʿ. Fragmentary.
State document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 7 lines are preserved. Mentions a ship (markab), probably the docking of a ship (mursā), and is …
Probably an Ayyubid capitation tax receipt. Headed by the ʿalāma "iʿtimādī ʿālā khāliqī." The next line refers to an Aleppan Jew ([...] Yahūdī Ḥalabī). The …
Fiscal accounts relating to agrarian administration for the kharājī year 430 (spanning the lunar years 431 and 432 AH, corresponding to 1039–41 CE) issued by …
Note in Arabic script in the upper left margin of a page of dirges. Mentions the title Sharaf al-Umarāʾ and ما هو مشروح.
Receipt.
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 …
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Asking for "the lofty rescript" (التوقيع العالي زاده الله شرفا وعلوا) apparently concerning a certain Abū Saʿd, "sitting …
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Three fragments, of which one (with another one stuck to it) is part of a state memorandum, petition or decree containing the phrase al-imām al-Ḥāfiẓ …
Verso (original use): Beginning of a Fatimid petition to a caliph. Extremely torn and fragmentary. Mentions a caliph by name, "wa sayyiduna al-Imām", but the …
Small fragment with remnants of ḥamdala and ṣalwala.
The original text is probably an (official?) account in Arabic script. There are also several later lines of poetry or aphorisms (ان يركب البغلات قوم …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration marks - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran and al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn.
Tax or other receipt, probably. Needs examination.
State-issued receipt related to silk processing in Alexandria. In Arabic script. Dated: 12 Jumād[a] 1236 AH (). (MCD with information from JRL catalogue.) Needs examination.
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic ("... al-nabawiyya..."). Reused on both sides for Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Bifolio from a register containing multiple entries recording fiscal payments, including name of the taxpayer and amount paid. Registration marks visible. Could be identified as …
Probably a state document in Arabic script. Only a few partial lines are preserved on both recto and verso.
Recto: Petition asking for firewood. "انهى ذلك ويقبل الارض بين يديها رايها الصائب في ذلك ان شا الله تعالى". Dating: Probably Mamluk. Verso: Accounts.
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script. Mentions al-ṣabiyy al-malikī.
Tax receipt?
Receipt ("tadhkira bism...") for the capitation tax of Maʿrūf b. Yahūdhā al-Yahūdī, an indigo merchant (nīlī) and perfumer (ʿattār), in Fustat. The registration mark / …
Fragment from the top of a petition, probably. The sender's name may be partially legible. Opens with a line containing the words عقد and عقدي …
Official correspondence in Arabic. Wide line spacing. Four lines preserved: . . ذلك ولما حضروا واعادوا . . . قررنا الامر على ما كاتبناك به …