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End of a petition in Arabic script. Asking for permission to enter Egypt on behalf of a group of people. In a different hand, there …
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Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī." Dated: Muḥarram 504 AH = 1110 CE.
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Document in Arabic script. Likely a fiscal document recording amounts of money associated with the operations of dīwān al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra (the state sugar refineries?) Cf. …
Petition. In large Arabic script, wide space between the lines, in a chancery hand. This is a small fragment from the lower right corner of …
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Capitation tax receipt for [...] b. Hibatallāh [...] al-Ḥasan the Jewish banker in Fustat for the year 541 AH. Dated: 19 Muḥarram 541 AH = …
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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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…
Fragment of a fiscal document referring to the annual budget of the Dīwān al-Abwāb (aka Dīwān al-Kharājī wa-l-Hilālī) "من مال ضمان ديوان الابواب". Cf. ENA …
The ends of 5 lines of a state document. Mentions a dīwān in l. 1. Needs examination. Verso is blank.
Arabic state document, reused for Hebrew literary text. Needs examination. Join: Joseph Yahalom.
Draft of a petition to the caliph al-Ḥākim, with tarjama and opening formulae. Recto contains a Hebrew legal deed (see separate entry). From Hibat Allāh …
بسم للهّ الرحمن الرحیم
بسم
العبد المملوك هبة الله بن
ابو منصور الیھودي
صلوات للهّ وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وأفض…
Petition/letter of appeal for assistance likely addressed to 'the overseer' (al-mushārif, l. 1). The sender refers to this document as "this khidma." The sender is …
Recto: Letter or petition addressed to someone with many honorifics: al-muwaffaqiyya al-manṣūra al-ḥāmiya al-muʾayyadiyya.... Might mention the palace (al-qaṣr). The name of the sender may …
Small fragment of a state document, probably a report. Refers to a military man: "min rijāl al-ʿasākir al-muʾayyada." Verso may be a distinct document.
Verso (original use): account (table form) in a fiscal hand, transverse to Arabic text. The first entry refers to a white Dimyāṭī garment that is …
Petition, fragment, in Arabic script. The sender says that he (or less likely someone else) is unable to provide for himself (a trope of petitions) …
Official state correspondence, beginning of two wide lines, chancery hand "al-ʿabd al-mamlūk". List or table on verso, requires examination.
Fiscal account? Mentions a dīwān and possibly the terms muqṭaʿ and/or maṭbakh. Needs examination.
Two receipts for payment of kharāj in grain (qamḥ)and beans (fūl) on one sheet of paper from 535/1140–41 (date works well with return to collection …
One fragmented line in an Arabic chancery hand, probably of a decree, later cut and reused to form quires of Hebrew script. A suggestive reading …
Fiscal account, probably.
Official receipt for Dāʾūd b. Yaʿqūb. Unclear for what. Dated: 524(?) AH. Needs further examination.
Fragment of a fiscal register, probably. May mention the year 506 AH, which would be 1112/13 CE. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭim. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 …
Document in Arabic script resembling a state receipt, however sloppier and without the usual registration marks at the top.
A few words from the end of a line of a state document in large Arabic script. On verso there is piyyuṭ. (Information in part …
Fiscal document. Needs examination.
Recto: Portions of two lines of a grand document in Arabic script, perhaps a decree. In the massive space in between the lines, there is …
Tax receipt for [...] b. Yūsuf.
Verso (original use): Fragment of official correspondence or possibly a private letter in Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. Thin vertical strip with portions …
State petition regarding a Maghribī Jewish trader caught drinking with a Muslim woman and imprisoned. Cuts off right before the request: there arrived from the …
Petition in Arabic script. The sender's name may appear between lines 2 and 3 (ʿabduhu Khalaf....?). May mention Qalyūb (l. 3) and mentions merchandise and …
State document: End of a Fatimid petition or report from the period of al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or earlier.
Maybe draft of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for jottings. Mentions al-muqṭaʿ. The first long line mentions al-Shaykh al-Amīr Fakhr al-Dawla Ibn Ṭāhir …
Tax receipt.
Fiscal account, probably Fatimid.
State document, in Arabic script. Receipt of the capitation tax payment of al-Qāhira and Fusṭāṭ.
State document, extremely fragmented, only a few words readable. Mentions the amir Asad al-Dawla.
Document in Arabic script. Probably an official report or petition, based on the hand and layout. The ends of ~6 lines are preserved. The subject …
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph.
Verso: Fragment from the end of a state document, probably a decree. In a very large chancery hand: على آله الطاهرين وسلم تسليما. There are …
State document, in Arabic script. Decree. Mentions taking something from the Amīr Makīn al-Dawla.
وحراسته ونعمته في [ ] من يد الامير مكين الدولة
Decree, probably. There is a single phrase in naskhī Arabic calligraphy (ʿabīd al-dawla wa-l-yaʿmal bihi....?). Reused for Hebrew liturgical text.
Bifolio in which two of the four pages have entries that sound like language from (state?) receipts, and a third page has a legal-sounding formula.
One side has the beginning of a letter written in Arabic script in a hasty scrawl. The other side has, in large letters in a …
Probably a state document (or documents). Text unclear, but contains a date: 432? Verso l. 1 refers to the amir Sayf al-Khilāfa.
Small fragment of a state document, it seems referring to the year 595 AH = 1198/99 CE.
Note in Arabic script in the upper left margin of a page of dirges. Mentions the title Sharaf al-Umarāʾ and ما هو مشروح.
Verso: Fragment of an official Arabic document, possibly a petition or decree. The ends of three lines are preserved. Unclear if any of the substance …
Fiscal document referring to the amīr Sayf al-Dawla and mentioning the date 27 Jumādā II 527 AH = 2 May 1133 CE. YU/ASE.
Small fragment from a Fatimid decree, containing only the phrase "[some verb from the root kharaja/'issue'] the decree/rescript to the Dīwān of [...]."