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Fatimid capitation tax receipt for Isḥāq b. Shūʿā (=Yiṣḥaq b. Yeshuʿa), a Jewish druggist (ʿaṭṭār)
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Petition from a group of people to a chief vizier (Sayyid al-Wuzarāʾ) titled "al-Kāmilī." In Arabic script. Fragment (upper half only). The petitioners complain that …
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State document in Arabic. Fragments of 4 lines are preserved.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Document in Arabic script, possibly fiscal accounting.
Petition to addressed to a noble woman, probably the Fatimid empress Sitt al-Mulk given the honorifics. In Arabic script. Written in two columns. The petitioner …
مملوك مولاتنا خلد الله ملكها
الخلف(؟)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عبد مولاتنا السيدة الشـ[ـريفة]
الملكة حرس الله ملكها وحرس عزها
وادام م…
The slave of our mistress, may God make her reign eternal
(al-Khalaf?)
In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.
The slave of our …
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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 / …
Original use: Fragment of a chancery document, possibly a decree. In Arabic script with wide line spacing. 7 lines are partially preserved. Later, the empty …
Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. The sender bemoans his poverty (ṣaʿlaka) and expresses his trouble with paying a tax, probably his capitation tax. …
Two pages from a single fiscal register, mentions the months Rabīʿ II, Ramaḍān, Shawwāl, Dhū l-Qaʿda, and a name ʿAbīd b. ʿUmar. Reused for Hebrew …
Original use: Accounts in Arabic script, probably fiscal. Dating: twice mentions the year 413 AH = 1022/23 CE. The sums mentioned are very large, e.g., …
Beginning formula of a pseudo-petition, in Arabic script. After the formula, the addressee is mentioned as "fulān" b. "fulān".
Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. Four lines from near the top are preserved. Addressed to a military wazīr in the late Fatimid period. …
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Petition from ʿUmar b. ʿAbdallāh al-Miṣrī, in Asyūṭ (l. 7), to a notable with a long string of titles (ll. 4–6). He reports on his …
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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Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. On verso there are accounts of some sort (mentioning Manṣūr b. [...]), unclear if this …
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Report to al-Afḍal. The join between T-S NS 201.132 and T-S AS 116.410 + T-S AS 103.49 + T-S NS 209.47 is very probably but …
A few words from a large state document ([...] min jiha. . .)