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State documentT-S AS 165.215
Probably a state document in Arabic script, reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ. The Arabic document is very difficult to read.
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402
State documentMoss. IV,151.1
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 …
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State documentENA 3939.2
Fragment of a state correspondence, probably a decree, 5 lines, bottom-left corner of the document with traces of paper decay. Mentions the day of movement …
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State documentT-S Ar.42.173
Recto (secondary use): Petition draft in Arabic script. The sender thanks the addressee for employing him in government service (khidma). Mentions "al-dawāwīn al-maʿmūra." The variants …
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- المملوك يقبل الارض وينهي انه كان انعم عليه بالخدمة في [
- طـ[ ]....للديوان المعمور
- من الجاري[ …
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- The slave kisses the ground and reports that he [the addressee] showed kindness to him by appointing him in [
- [ ]in the …
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State documentT-S AS 206.55
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script, maybe a decree. Three words are preserved.
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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 389
Possibly a petition in Arabic script. Dating: Ayyubid or Mamluk-era? At the top: [...] Manṣūr(?) b. Abū l-Ṭayyib al-mutaʿalliq bi-dīwān al-[...]. Mentions blessings for the …
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State documentENA 3940.9
Black ink (original use): Probably a piece of a state document. At the top: thabata ʿindī jamīʿ mā nuṣṣa wa-shuriḥa fīhi... wa-kataba Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm …
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State documentUU 1476
Mamlūk-era, tax receipt, in Arabic script.
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State documentENA 3952.3
Fiscal account, probably Fatimid. Dates include 507H and 510H.
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State documentT-S AS 179.103
Mamlūk-era fiscal document. Perhaps a makhzūma. Mentions a dīwān in the first line. An archival note with an ʿalāma "alḥamdu li-llah rabb al-ʿālamīn" on verso. …
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State documentT-S Ar.39.205
Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of …
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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 633
Likely a tax receipt, maybe involving sugar. Very hastily written.
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413
State documentT-S Misc.26.37
Official letter in Arabic script. Beautiful handwriting. Wide space between the lines. Ḥamdala and ḥasbala at bottom. Needs examination.
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State documentT-S AS 177.135
Fragment of a petition, or draft. Nothing is preserved except for the identification of the petitioners: al-ʿabīd al-mamālīk jamāʿat al-yahūd, i.e., a group or community …
- العبيد المماليك[
- جماعة اليهود[
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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 142
Fiscal document, with two holes. Needs examination.
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State documentT-S Ar.40.161
Recto: Arabic-script document containing several sections. The lower part may be a tax receipt for a sum received from Zuhayr b. [...] from the ḍamān …
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State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.12
State document or a legal document beginning with invocations and blessings upon Fatimid caliph al-Mustanṣir. The layout of the document in different from typical Fatimid …
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State documentENA 3954.7
Fragment of a letter about government business. In Arabic script. ". . . if he has it done by the jahbadh of the arsenal (al-ṣināʿa), …
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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…
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State documentT-S NS 239.20
Part of one line from a state document, perhaps a decree. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ
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State documentT-S Ar.35.217
Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī." Same man: T-S Ar.35.132, T-S Ar.35.174, and T-S Ar.35.217. Dated: Muḥarram …
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State documentT-S AS 134.233
Part of a state or legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a community or group (al-jamāʿa) and the middle of Shawwāl. Reused on recto for …
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State documentT-S AS 183.149
Recto: Small fragment from official correspondence. Verso: Reused for unidentified text mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, maybe accounts.
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State documentT-S NS J333
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 …
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State documentT-S AS 135.29
Unidentified official-looking document in Arabic script. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ with Judaeo-Arabic heading גירה. (Information in part from CUDL)
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State documentENA 3966.13
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration marks - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran and al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn.
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State documentENA NS 71.7
Verso: Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb with a registration mark al-ḥamdu li-llah ʿalā niʿamih. The name of the jahbadh is …
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State documentT-S AS 184.215
Tax receipt. Fragment (bottom half). In the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ (active in the early 11th century in al-Fayyūm).
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State documentT-S K11.28
State document in Arabic of which three lines are well-preserved. Medieval-era. The paper was reused for a text in Hebrew on both the recto and …
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State documentT-S AS 178.238
Recto and verso are two different versions of petitions, in two different hands. The one on verso looks somewhat later, perhaps Ayyubid-era, and is from …
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State documentT-S K25.240.43
Recto: Last two lines of a formal letter or petition in Arabic script. Ends with a ḥasbala + ṣalwala.
- واماط عنه الاذى ان شا الله تعالى
- الحمد لله وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه واله وسلم تسليما
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State documentT-S AS 177.535
Official (tax?) receipt. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE). Needs examination.
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State documentENA 3944.10
Verso: Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb, with holes at the margin. Registration mark - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih, praise be …
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State documentJRL SERIES B 4150
State document, probably Fatimid. Closing formula of a decree, possibly, or another state document written in a thick pen. The preserved text is a ṣalwala …
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- الحمد لله وصلى الله على] سيدنا محمد نبيه واله وسلم
- وحسبنا ا]لله [ونعم الـو]كيل
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State documentT-S AS 179.58
Receipt for the capitation tax of Nissim(?) b. Bū l-Faḍl(?) in New Cairo. Payment: 1 dinar. This receipt is squatter and sloppier than most.
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State documentT-S Ar.51.108
Recto, with address on verso: Petition/letter from Muslim b. ʿAlī b. Muslim to Abū l-Faraj Mawhūb b. Yūḥannā. The sender is a state official or …
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State documentENA 3968.23
Official-looking small receipt. ENA 3968.21 and ENA 3968.23 appear to be in the name of the same person (Ḥusayn b. [...]). Needs examination.
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State documentT-S H10.166
Two unrelated Arabic script documents glued together for the sake of reuse. Lower document: State document. Only the first few words are preserved from ~12 …
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State documentT-S Ar. 40.8
State document, or at least official correspondence, in Arabic script. Mentions "dīwān" at least two times, Jews, and something taken from the peasants "fa-yuqaddam ilā …
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State documentAIU XII.69
Possibly an official document in Arabic script, but the hand is crude. Could also be an IOU with a layout reminiscent of state documents. Concerns …
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State documentT-S NS 306.76
Official letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left piece). The addressee is an amīr with various titles including [...] al-salāṭīn. Refers to a district (nāḥiya) …
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State documentBL OR 10578K.9
Fragment of a report apparently from an army officer to a superior. He describes how "we all went out to Wādī Buṭnān (near Aleppo) and …
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State documentENA 3971.31
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 …
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State documentT-S AS 102.90
Petition to a Fatimid caliph, end only, with long lower margin enabling it to be reused as a biofolio transverse to the original text.
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عليـ]ـهم ما شمل كله المعظم (؟) في هذه الايام
الزاهرة القاهرة عدلا واحسانا ورهبة ور حمة
ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه رايها العالي في ذلك
ان …
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State documentT-S AS 176.67
Probably a tax receipt. Only the registration notes at the top and the basmala from the original document are preserved.
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State documentENA 3954.2
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; …
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State documentT-S AS 184.148
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 …
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State documentT-S NS 238.55
Fiscal document in Arabic script. May mention a year at the top ([..]9), and elsewhere mentions various other numbers. In the main text block refers …
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State documentT-S Ar.35.383
Official report to an amīr who is addressed with many titles (al-muʾayyad al-manṣūr al-amīr Shihāb al-Dīn ʿumdat al-dawla etc.). The sender reports that he arrived …
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State documentT-S Ar.35.54
Tax receipt for [...] b. Yūsuf.
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State documentENA 2921.4
Brief official letter in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The addressee is to give the bearer Yūsuf and ʿInān(?) 100 silver pieces "for Minyat …
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