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Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb on dyeing in Dhāt al-Ṣafā. Dated: 21 Ramaḍān 405. Written by Yuḥannā b. Mīkhāʾīl, the son of …
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Petition. Small fragment. Contains a taqbīl clause (and not much else). The beginning formula following the taqbīl resembles petition openings during the time of the …
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A few letters from an official Arabic document, possibly a decree. No full words preserved. Reused for piyyuṭ on recto.
No Scholarship Records
Recto: Informal note in difficult Arabic script, scrawled basmala on top, possibly a memorandum to do with land tenure? Needs further examination. Verso: Informal note …
Original use: Small fragment from the bottom of a Fatimid decree. Dating: No later than 1077 CE.
Report from the period of al-Afḍal, probably. In Arabic script. Nine lines from the middle of the report are nearly completely preserved. Sent from a …
Receipt issued by the silk monopoly administration in Alexandria that was signed and stamped by the overseer ʿUmr Agha. Dated 14 Shawwal 1239 AH which …
Official salary receipt issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria. Dated: Jumādā II 1239 AH (1824 CE). In the introduction to her …
Deposits
from the hand of the exemplar of the great and support of
the notables, of power and renown, his excellency
our master the noble…
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Verso: Accounts in Arabic, likely fiscal. Mentions fūl (fava beans) and jullabān (vetch) and shaʿīr (barley).
Petition to the caliph al-Mustansir concerning the schism of 1038–42 between Shelomo b. Yehuda, the gaʾon of Palestine, and a pretender to the gaonate, Natan …
بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم العبيد ينهوا الى الموقف الشريف زاد الله شرف حالهم وذلك ان لما
جرى على ريسهم …
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Letter or official correspondence, probably Ikhshidid, in Arabic script. Mentions two officials, Abū l-Faḍāʾil and Abū Bakr ʿAlī b. Sulḥ, and other people. Also mentions …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Looks like a state/fiscal hand.
Original use: A few words from a decree: في ديواني الخاصة والخاص وينبغي ان.
في ديواني الخاصة والخاص وينبغي ان
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 …
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment from the beginning of a petition. Dating: likely Ayyubid or Mamluk.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, a silk worker (qazzāz) and craftsman (ṣāniʿ). Same payer: T-S Ar.34.224, T-S Ar.34.282 (where …
A few words possibly from a state document in Arabic script. "... al-murtaḍā al-kāshif..."
Decree, in Arabic script. Only a few words preserved in a bold chancery script.
Fatimid capitation tax receipt for Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Response to the endorsement of a petition by two men, one of whom is Ibrāhīm, son of the illustrious judge. The case is referred to …
[Praise be to God] alone and his blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad, the prophet, and save (him).
The two servants of our master, the praises of…
Brutal document. Probably to do with fiscality. Looks official and Mamluk-era based on paleographical grounds. Needs examination.
Document(s) in Arabic script. Recto has two closing lines of a standard Fatimid petition or report: ḥamdala, taṣliya, and the ḥasbala. The verso seems to …
Writing exercise in a chancery hand, two different hands alternating. Encomium to an official. Alternatively, the original document may be a genuine document rather than …
Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī." Dated: Muḥarram 504 AH = 1110 CE.
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?).
Fiscal document, or accounts in a bifolio, in Arabic script with integers in Coptic numerals. The columns are headed "al-mustakhraj" and "al-maṣrūf" (the former is …
Two lines from an official letter in Arabic script. Reused for liturgical text in Hebrew (same scribe as T-S NS 111.63?).
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic ("... al-nabawiyya..."). Reused on both sides for Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso (original use): Bottom of an official letter in Arabic, possibly a petition ("...wa-lahā ḥarasa Allāh ʿizzahā raʾyuhā al-mawaffaq al-kāshifa in shāʾ Allah"). Ends with …
Recto: Fiscal document, minute fragment thereof, from the left margin. Dated 27 Ramaḍān, "aẓẓāma--llāhu barakatuhā". Verso: possibly second side of the same document; mostly blank …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
State document, in Arabic script. Decree, interspersed with Hebrew text on recto and verso. Only two legible words are preserved.
Report to the caliph Al-Ẓāhir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh in which a previous report is mentioned. Dating: ca. 411–27/1021–36. On verso there is an Aramaic midrash. …
The benedictions of God and his blessings, his most excellent greetings andincreasing benefacti…
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Petition from Abū l-Ḥasan b. Dāwūd to a Fatimid dignitary. The petitioner is a poor young man, whose father died destitute and left him only …
His servant and slave,
Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Dāʾūd
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the lofty, mighty, much-sought…
Document in Arabic script opening with prayers for the caliph al-Āmir bi-Ahkām Allāh (r. 1101–30).
Very cryptic document in Arabic script. Contains phrases such as "al-aqlāmī al-mālikī al-nāṣirī," wa-l-salām," and a reference to "al-azmān." Several phrases are repeated multiple times; …
Small fragment from a state document (tax receipt?) with the ʿalāma الحمد لله الخفي لطفه.
Decree (manshūr) issued by the caliph al-Hafiz on 21 Rajab 528/1133 to stop two cases of malpractice which were adversely affecting the Delta province of …
State document, extremely fragmentary. Only "al-Ajall" is readable.
A few words from an official Arabic document (ḥaḍratuhu... ʿuluwwahu...), apparently praises for an addressee, so from a report or petition. Reused for Hebrew literary …
Fragment with two partial lines of an Arabic state document. Mentions a group of people who want help (وان غرضهم مساعدة). Reused for Hebrew literary …
Receipt ("tadhkira bism...") for the capitation tax of Maʿrūf b. Yahūdhā al-Yahūdī, an indigo merchant (nīlī) and perfumer (ʿattār), in Fustat. See T-S AS 177.105 …
Bottom of a state document in Arabic script. 3 lines preserved, wide space between the lines. Gives the date of writing (12 Shaʿbān, no year), …
A few words from a large state document ([...] min jiha. . .)
Fatimid state document. Report to al-Malik al-Afḍal from al-thaghr al-maḥrūs (probably Tyre). Ca. 1108 CE. Related fragments are as follows (the clusters are defined based …
State or private petition in Arabic script. Fragmentary. Uses the terms murā`ī and mamālīk.
الذي ضمن المراعي بالـ[
ويلاذ به المماليك و[
]رقل بالمماليك وحـ[
ولهم ثلثة سنين يجادلو[
] والابعاد(؟) التي يجب عليها
ـ]ـر على الممال…
Small fragment of Arabic correspondence, probably official. Reused by a serial recycler (see T-S 20.75 + T-S 20.70 (PGPID 31256)).
State document, extremely fragmentary. The name of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir is written "al-Mustanṣir Billah Amīr al-Muʾminīn."