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Possibly the bottom of a tax receipt. Dated 610 or 620 AH.
No Scholarship Records
Lower right corner of a state document, likely an official letter of some sort.
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in the hand of a prolific scribe. Join: Shulamit Elizur.
Fragment from the top of a petition. May be addressed to Saladin (al-Malik al-Nāṣir). Reused for Hebrew seliḥot.
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State document, extremely fragmentary. The name of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir is written "al-Mustanṣir Billah Amīr al-Muʾminīn."
Small official-looking receipt in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Bū ʿAlī b. Faraj(?).
Petition to a Fāṭimid vizier concerning an allowance of a jurisconsult, which the petitioner used to receive from the auspicious office, which was to be …
May God make eternal the rule of the lofty and exalted seat, the mighty lord,(commander …
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Verso (original use): Unidentified document in Arabic script. Possibly the bottom of a tax receipt or other state document.
Fragment likely from the bottom of a Fatimid fiscal account, based on the appearance of the ṣalwala at the bottom (وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد …
State document, in Arabic script. Extremely fragmentary decree, barely one word readable per line. In perpendicular is another Arabic script in thin pen containing a …
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Text in Ottoman Turkish.
State document, probably a decree, last three lines, written on the joyous occasion of ʿĪd al-Naḥr. Preserved lines read as "فاعلم هذا واعمل..وكتب في يوم …
واعلم هذا واعمل بـ[ـه وليقرّ بأيديهم بعد ثبوته في ... بحيث يثبت مثله ان شاء الله تعالى]
كتب في يوم عيد النحر السعيد [سنة …. ]
[الحمد لله …
Verso (original use): "Commercial receipt" for ʿArūs b. Yosef.
State document or letter in huge Arabic script. A portion of one line is preserved: ʿalayka wa-hādha maʿdūd(?)... Reused for piyyuṭ.
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Faḍl b. Manṣūr, a Jewish trader, in Fustat. Dated: 17 Muḥarram 525 AH.
Fragment of an official-looking letter in Arabic script. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. May mention "my greatest debts are with . . . …
Tax receipt?
Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script, maybe a report or a decree. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ. Requires further examination.
Fragment from the top of a petition, or petition-like letter, from Farajallāh.
State document, in Arabic script. Petition addressed to the Fatimid caliph based on the beginning invocations and blessings. The name of the petitioner is Ṣandal …
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Mubārak b. Ibrāhīm (Ibn Sabrā, a relatively well-known character from Judaeo-Arabic Geniza documents). Same cluster: ENA 3953.1, …
State document, in Arabic script. In chancery hand. Probably a letter fragment. Only the basmala from the verso and the address from the recto are …
State document, in Arabic script. Four fragmentary lines preserved. Dated 446 H/1054 CE. Probably a decree ordering the safeguarding of the affairs of the people …
List of something. In Arabic script. On the recto, there is a note: "wa-ʿamiltu hādha l-fihrist fī hādha". On the verso, there is a mention …
Official report in Arabic script. Blaming a spy named Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Ḥammāra and one other person for betraying Damietta to the Franks and possibly …
State document, in Arabic script. Regarding proceedings in the Office of Inspection in the province of al-Fayyūm. Abū Fatḥ Allāh Shawār b. Yūsuf, the chief …
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
حضر الى ديوان الاشراف بالاعمال
الفيومية ابي فتح اللـه سوار بن يوسف
الناىب عن البيادير المستوفي في خزانة\خزان
…
A few words from a state document (including bi-aʿmāl). Possibly a decree. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Petition. In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era based on handwriting and format, but that is a guess. The addressee is Shams al-Dīn [...] b. Shams …
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 …
Official account mentioning the transfer of sums to the fisc (bayt al-māl) from the bureau of the capitation tax (bayt al-jawālī): "mablagh al-maḥmūl ilā bayt …
Document in Arabic script. Perhaps accounts or an administrative document. Needs examination.
Fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely a petition addressed to al-Amīr al-Muwaffaq al-Manṣūr Ḥusām al-Mulk Muʾayyad [al-Da]wla. Mentions "...these farms from the inside …
Petition from Ṭāhir b. Isḥāq, a poor man from Alexandria, to the amir Qarāqūsh Bahāʾ ai-Dīn b. ʿAbdallāh al-Asadī (his nisba derives from his having …
The slave
Tāhir ibn Isḥāq
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the lofty, mighty and sublime presence, the most g…
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Multiple registration marks such as 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih', praise be to God for his …
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Tax receipt.
Minute fragment with a few Arabic words preserved on each side, either from a legal or official document. AA
State document(s), likely Ayyubid. Recto might be headed "tawqīʿ" and may grant someone the right to engage in business with the price of shipping something …
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: …
Official letter or document in Arabic script. Maybe a petition asking the addressee to reprimand and threaten a group of people: والزجر لهم . . …
Official receipt, likely for capitation tax ("min jizyatihī") for Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf the Jew. Mentions "bi-mushārafat al-qāḍī . . . Yūsuf b. [...]." In the …
State document, in Arabic script. The decree of al-ʿAbbās, the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, concerning the monks of Mt. Sinai and ordering that no unusual impositions …
Petition from a woman to a high dignitary or perhaps to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil himself (one reigned 1200–18 and another reigned 1238–40) in a rudimentary hand. …
Verso (original use): Petition. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Concerning the synagogue at Dammūh and asking for orders/guidance (waṣāh). Perhaps having to do with …
Fiscal document. There is an ʿalāma at the top and underneath registration of various sums of money. Needs examination. Reused for piyyut on verso.
Lower fragment, recto: Document in calligraphic Arabic script. Maybe a state document. Phrases: وبيعه بالسعر المستوفي . . . حق(؟) فقد سير الغلة صحبته مملوكه …
Verso: Decree, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. Only three lines of text are preserved. Needs examination.
Fragment of a petition from a woman, in Arabic script. She complains about her poverty and the vicissitudes of fate, but it seems she has …
بعد كلمة والتعرف وكتب……………….عبده
تشتكي ياخي(؟) فيه من قلة ذات اليد وامور الزمان هي ومن معها اطال ذلك[
الله تعالى وحضرته السامية وكانت حض…
Recto: State document in Arabic script. Dating: No later than 1078/79 CE. Large chancery hand, wide space between the lines. 4 lines preserved here. Opens …
Official-looking receipt maybe tax-related. Dating: maybe 547 AH, which would be 1152/53 CE.