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Fragment of a state (fiscal?) document. Needs examination.
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Original use: Small fragment from the bottom of a Fatimid decree. Dating: No later than 1077 CE.
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Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 8 Rabīʿ I 405 (6 September 1014). Written …
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Fatimid fiscal report or account for the fiscal (kharājī) year 417, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Dated: 417 kharājī/419 AH. Document is …
عبد مولانا وسيدنا الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله امير المومنين
صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الاكرمين
ومملوكه حسين…
The servant of our master and lord, the imām al-Zāḥir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh, commander of the faithful,
the blessings of God be upon him and upon hi…
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Receipt for someone's capitation tax in Fustat for the year 6[..] AH (approx. 13th century CE). Needs examination.
Petition/report in Arabic script, begins with a taqbīl formula. Addressed to [...] b. Muḥammad intriguingly called 'the agent (wakīl) of the sultan.' Dating: probably Mamluk-era …
Fiscal account of some sort, Fatimid, dated 533 AH = 1138/39 CE. Small. Refers to the iqṭāʿ attributed to the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ ("al-iqṭāʿāt al-Ḥāfiẓiyya..."). Also …
State document, or official letter, in Arabic script. Refers to an amīr and his operations, and mentions something in relation to the bedouins (ʿurbān). The …
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Fiscal document referring to the amīr Sayf al-Dawla and mentioning the date 27 Jumādā II 527 AH = 2 May 1133 CE. YU/ASE.
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. Portions of 7 lines are preserved. On verso there is an inscription in enormous Hebrew letters (אלקדר יצ...) flanked …
Accounts of some kind in Arabic script. Possibly official. The format resembles that of the Ikhshīdid fiscal documents. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ in …
State document, internal report, in Arabic script. The sender may be Yaḥyā b. Ḥāmid(?) b. Sālim. The addressee is a qāḍī (al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya al-qaḍāʾiyya). Dating: …
Probably fiscal accounting. Dated: 575 AH = Accounts in Arabic on recto and verso, probably state. Medieval era. Requires further examination.
Likely a fragment of a fiscal account. There are four text blocks arranged in a grid, each headed by the name of a person written …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration marks - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran and al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn.
Likely a Fatimid fiscal account. Difficult to read. As of July 2025 this fragment is not conserved and can be seen only in Cambridge.
Original use: Verses from Leviticus. Secondary use: The margins are entirely filled with Arabic-script text from documents, mostly or entirely petitions or official-sounding letters. The …
Fragment from the top of a petition, or petition-like letter, from Farajallāh.
A few letters are preserved from an Arabic state document, probably a decree. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
(3r)Tax receipt. Needs examination.
Receipt of some kind for Ibrāhīm b. [...]. A period of one year is specified. There is a word that looks like "halīlaj" (myrobalan), but …
Recto: Probably original usage. State document, specifically the ending lines of a petition in Arabic script. The raʾy clause is preserved: "al-ʾārā al-sulṭāniyya". Reused for …
Bottom of a petition. In Arabic script. Addressed to a caliph. Needs examination. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Fiscal document headed مال سنة سبع واربعين واربعماىة الخراجية وما قبلها "funds of the kharājī year 447 and the preceding." This was circa 1055/56 CE. …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Report from Tyre to the chancery of al-Malik al-Afḍal concerning military and administrative affairs on the coast of Palestine, dating probably to 1108 CE. Same …
Tax receipt for Abū l-Surūr b. Faraj. Trigger: addā. Registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh bihi athiq', praise be to God in whom I trust.
Farm estate accounting notes. TeL.
Fatimid document, probably fiscal, more than one hand, one large in shā allāh, and one registration mark: al-ḥamdū lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih. Damaged and not easy …
Beginning of a Fatimid petition, in Arabic script. Reused for a tax receipt on verso.
Fragment containing only the imprint of the text of T-S AS 184.235, which seems to be a state document mentioning a rescript (tawqīʿ).
Tax receipt. Contains registrations (ʿalāʾim) from the Dīwān al-Ishrāf at the top. There are also several endorsements underneath. The date looks like 547 AH = …
Small fragment of a state document, likely a decree. The first words of two lines are preserved (including ʿalayhi). Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Petition in Arabic script. There are multiple senders, evidently Jewish. Much of the remaining text is formulaic. They refer to khurūj al-amr al-ʿālī ('the issuing …
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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Decree, probably a public copy with gigantic line spacing. Mentions the signature/ʿalāma (khaṭṭ, khuṭūṭ) of two just witnesses (al-shuhūd al-ʿadlayn) and overseers (al-mushārifīn). Also mentions …
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam in Fustat. Dated: 508 AH? See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the …
Document(s) in Arabic script. Likely official correspondence. Recto and verso look like different hands, and each has portions of ~4 lines preserved. Recto may mention …
Fragment of an Arabic (official?) document reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on both sides.
Administrative document(s), probably. On one side: ʿAbd al-Muḥsin b. Ḥasan 1 dinar waẓīfa. On the other side: Muslim b. Salāma 1 dinar waẓīfa. There are …
Tax receipt, Fatimid for the sum of one-quarter dīnār (rubʿ)? Registration mark at the top left corner- al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran li niʿmatihi.
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Recto contains a date: Muḥārram 567 and total of sums towards the bottom, probably one thousand seven hundred. Needs examination.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Might be legal or official. Ḥamdala and ṣalwala in the second-to-last line. It was torn and reused for a different …
Part of a state or legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a community or group (al-jamāʿa) and the middle of Shawwāl. Reused on recto for …
Fatimid fiscal register. Contains the nuqila cipher (cf. AIU XII.92, ENA NS 83.346.1, NLI 4°8333.85, NLI 4°8333.171, NLI 4°8333.172, NLI 4°8333.173, NLI 4°8333.174, NLI 4°8333.175, …