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Official letter or document in Arabic script. Maybe a petition asking the addressee to reprimand and threaten a group of people: والزجر لهم . . …
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Fiscal cocument(s) in Arabic script. Probably 12th C Fatimid based on paleography. Mentions the town Raʾs al-khalīj on the lower Nile delta, and a string …
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Fragment of a state document in Arabic script. ENA 2846.1 (PGPID 40432) and ENA 2846.2 (PGPID 40433) likely join; it is unclear if they are …
Official report, probably. First four lines. The sender reports that when his group approached the gardens/fields (basātīn) there remained a good hour of distance between …
Very unusual account, written in large letters, likely fiscal. Perhaps wages for soldiers/mercenaries? Recto, upper section: -people's names such Masʿūd b. Manṣūr b. Sabʿ(?) and …
Possibly a fragment from a fiscal register. Mentions a kharājī year. Very large script. Reused for the morning benedictions for weekday services.
Fragment from the top of a Judaeo-Arabic copy of a decree (manshūr) of the caliph al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, it seems his appointment of a certain …
Minute fragment probably from an Arabic state document.
Verso: Fragment of a petition in Arabic, Fatimid-era, possibly from a woman (l. 2: وسوالها), or this could just be referring to a preceding mamālīk/ʿabīd, …
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Official-looking document in Arabic script. Needs examination. Involves [...] b. Yūsuf al-ʿAṭṭār.
Fragment of an official-looking account. Verso may contain the glyph. Pinholes at the margin ~4mm apart. Needs examination for content.
State document, probably a decree. The fragmented line reads as "واما ما ذكره من دعا الخاصة". Hebrew liturgical text on recto.
Probably a state receipt, in Arabic script, for the purchase of a Nubian female slave named Tawfīq. It seems that the seller is Baqāʾ b. …
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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 …
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. ~4 lines preserved. Refers to al-dīwān al-Mustanṣirī. On verso there is piyyut. Likely related to the cluster T-S H11.90 + …
Recto: Petition, fragment. Perhaps involving the plunder and occupation of a house (....al-bayt wa-nahabū... ikhrājuhum ʿanhu... fa-mā li-l-mamlūk illā marāḥim al-mawlā...). The form of the …
Fatimid state document, probably a report. The beginnings of six lines are preserved. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ. Merits further examination.
Government receipt in Arabic on verso, one line states ṣaḥḥa li-Abū l-Aʿlā(?)… ʿalāʾim. Medieval-era. Requires further examination. MCD/ASE
Recto: State document in Arabic script. Maybe a decree. Only a few words are preserved: ]لى للفراج(؟) للتقضي(؟) . . . . . صولها
Receipt for the capitation tax of [...] b. Ibrāhīm the Jewish garment mender (al-raffāʾ) in Fustat for the year 567 AH = 1171/72 CE (if …
Petition or a report, from a group of people to al-ʿĀḍid (cf. formulae in T-S Ar.51.107). Mentions iqṭāʿāt and muqṭaʿīn, several place names, the ṣāḥib …
Fatimid capitation tax receipt for Isḥāq b. Shūʿā (=Yiṣḥaq b. Yeshuʿa), a Jewish druggist (ʿaṭṭār)
A few words in Arabic script: "by Ḥajjāj b. ʿAbdallāh under the supervision of [...]." Reused on verso for a Hebrew liturgical text.
Recto: Fragment of a petition (?), 3 fragmentary lines, containing part of an inhāʾ section (al-mamlūk yunhī anna) in which reference is made to the …
Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. T-S NS 327.63 Recto contains two documents headed by the glyph and with similar formatting. The upper parts of documents …
Verso (primary use): end of a petition containing a raʾy clause mentioning istikhrāj (extraction of taxes).
State document. Specific genre/purpose unclear. Has the glyph at the top. Then "... fī al-Dīwān al-Khāṣṣ lil-Fakhriyya...." The an ʿalāma and perhaps a confirmation of …
Verso (probably original use): Letter or petition in Arabic script. To a dignitary whose titles are "al-karīm al-akhaṣṣ al-awḥad al-raʾīs al-mufaḍḍal al-makhdūm zayn al-dīn sayyid …
Tax receipt. Fatimid-era. Short. Granted to a certain Yūsuf. Amounts and date and scribe are not immediately clear. Needs further examination.
Fragment of a Fatimid fiscal account, probably. Two entries are preserved. The phrase "ʿan al-mamʿūl fīhā" is preserved in both. There is a number (433?) …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably official correspondence. The document presumably describes a conflict resolution between two state officials, where both parties will respect each …
Long letter from one government official to another. In Arabic script. The name Abū l-Ṭāhir appears in the address (likely the addressee). It seems that …
Fragment of a draft (?) of a petition opening with the taqbīl clause repeated twice (once in isolation) and followed by the caliphal honorific titles: …
المملوك يقبل الارض اما
….المملوك يقبل الارض امام المقام النبوي الطاهري(الظاهري؟) المعظم الشريف
ضعف الله انواره واعلى لندامته/…اميره(؟) وبالم…
Fragment of a state document containing blessings for 'mawlānā' and the date (563 AH = 1167/68 CE). Reused for piyyut on verso.
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.
State document in Arabic script. Uses the phrase khidmat mālik al-riqq (see Khan, ALAD, 345, 368, 434 for meaning and other examples); and see T-S …
Fragment of a letter about government business. In Arabic script. ". . . if he has it done by the jahbadh of the arsenal (al-ṣināʿa), …
فلو قام بذلك على يد جهبذ الصناعة لكان اصلح له ورايها الموفق
وبن بو الغنائم فقد سالته احضار التحرير المختص بالديوان المفرد
وحضوره ايضا اتف…
Official correspondence. The beginnings of 9 lines are preserved. There are two fragments here which were glued together out of order. The top fragment mentions …
Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. From three merchants. Opens with blessings for the caliph. None of the substance is preserved. The formula "ضاعف …
State-issued receipt for al-Muʿallam Salmūn Iskenderānī who is listed with the administrative title "عامل" (financial intendant or collector of revenues). Dated: "in the end of …
Verso (original use): State document, in Arabic script. Decree. Two lines only, a tentative reading is as follows "لي الكتاب...وقد الزمهم العمل والحال". YU. Written …
Part of one line from an Arabic state document (decree?).
A few words from an Arabic state document (ʿalayhimā wa-law...). Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
State document, in Arabic script. Ayyubid-era, probably addressed to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil.
خرجت الاوامر المطاعة بعملها من المتاخرين
ورجال الاوامر الخـ[ـدمـ]ـة(؟) فقد(؟) عملت(؟)
الى الباب العالي المولوي الملكي العادلي
خلد الله سلطان…
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 …
Official letter in Arabic script. Beautiful handwriting. Wide space between the lines. Ḥamdala and ḥasbala at bottom. Needs examination.
Verso: Official correspondence in Arabic script. Fragment from the lower right corner, with the beginnings of 7 lines preserved. Mentions a sugar refinery (maṭbakh), a …
Fragment of official correspondence concerning the administration of Upper Egypt. The first four lines are mostly preserved. "It is necessary to write a noble letter …
Recto: Official letter/report, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of ~5 lines are preserved. Verso: piyyuṭ and phrases praising a dignitary. (Information in part from …
Receipt for tax, possibly Mamluk