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Tax receipt for a payment of a quarter dinar for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī."
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Tax receipt for the Jewish man Yūsuf b. Daʾūd for his capitation tax in Fustat. The date is given twice (51[.]?).
Decree (?) to a lower official or letter to a dignitary, 5 fragmentary lines from the mid-section. Arabic script, wide line spacing, chancery hand. Very …
Decree fragment in Arabic script. There are no full words to work with because of damage that was sustained after the paper was reused for …
Small fragment of a state document: "... al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-kāmilī..."
Fragment of a report concerning members of an official’s service and resulting damage. The writer states that information had reached him concerning the followers of …
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State document in Arabic script, probably a petition. Six fragments are preserved. The addressee is referred to with the titles al-Malikī al-Nāṣirī, which in Geniza …
State or legal document in Arabic script. 6 lines are preserved, with moderately wide space in between. Mentions "wa-khaṭṭ al-shaykh Abū l-Faraj" and "[...] al-madhkūr." …
Document of appointment. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The appointment is likely for a position in the army, mentioning an ‘affair of …
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Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Receipt for someone's capitation tax in Fustat for the year 6[..] AH (approx. 13th century CE). Needs examination.
Verso: State document, in Arabic script. Three fragments possibly from a decree, including the word ملكها. May be a draft or writing exercise as a …
State document, probably a decree fragment, huge script. Reused for later writing practice, contains a registration mark "والحمد لله وحده" and a name "فضائل بن …
Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if state/fiscal or private. Needs examination.
Petition, draft. in Arabic script. Arranged in four columns on a bifolio, with additional text at 90 degrees in the space between columns. Mentions a …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in the hand of a prolific scribe. Join: Shulamit Elizur.
State document, in Arabic script. Probably late. Mentions "al-waraq al-sāmī al-Muʾarrakh". Needs examination.
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 …
Capitation tax (jizya) receipt for Salmūn [...], possibly a teacher (muʿallim) in Fustat. The payment total appears at upper right (1 dinar? 2 dinars?). Trigger: …
Fragment of a petition. Hard to piece together the story but contains various interesting references such as to the judges (al-quḍāt) and to عبد يشوع …
A few words remaining from an Arabic state document. Reused on recto for Malachi 3.
Verso: Minute fragment of an Arabic document. Resembles the format of the Ikhshīdid fiscal documents but there is too little preserved to confirm. Reused for …
Upper part of a petition (first 9 lines) addressed to "al-amīr... al-mujāhid al-muthāghir al-murābiṭ al-isfahsalār... Shihāb al-Dīn." Dating: 13th century, or possibly later. The petitioner …
Document(s) in Arabic script. Likely official correspondence. Recto and verso look like different hands, and each has portions of ~4 lines preserved. Recto may mention …
Recto: State document beginning as follows: هذا كتاب من عبد الله ووليه الامام المنصور ابي علي الآمر باحكام الله امير المؤمنين صلوات الله عليه وعلى …
Two fragments of a Fatimid order/decree to a lower official. Mentions the caliph's estates (probably mentions its overseer). Repurposed as two folios for Hebrew liturgical …
التوجه الى الاعـمال الخيرية وحضور مجلس خدمة الا[مير
النجيب سيف الملك ليث الدولة وشجاعها ذي العزم
صنيعة امير المومنين…
turning to charitable works (or: the districts of [...]?) and presenting to the majlis al-khidma of the
noble a[mīr] Sayf al-Mulk, the sword of t…
Fiscal accounting ledger recording the monthly ground rent (ḥikr) payments for properties in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ made by Manṣūr b. Musallam/Muslim for the years 503 and …
Likely a fiscal document. About half a dozen damaged lines are preserved. Several numbers are mentioned and the words "ṣanīʿat... mawlāy ḥaḍrat..." Needs examination.
Petition, or an official letter in Arabic script. The sender may be named Hibatallāh b. Bū Naṣr. The addressee's name appears in the first line; …
At least two documents across two fragments (which belong together). In Arabic script. Two of the documents look legal/administrative. A third text-block is an extended …
Petition or report, Fatimid, fragment from near the beginning containing end of blessings, the taqbīl clause, and part of the qiṣṣa. Dating: 1100–71. Related to …
Small fragment of a petition or state document in Arabic script. One of the only phrases preserved is مراسمنا العالية. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. …
State document, fragment, one isolated line in Arabic script. "والذي ينهيه عبد مولانا امير المؤمنين". Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ, the prayer for rain …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ḥasan b. Ṣadaqa in Fustat.
Brief official report in Arabic script. Ends, "anhā dhālika wa-l-raʾy aʿlāhu." Dating: Likely Ayyubid or early Mamluk-era, based on handwriting and format. it seems to …
Closing of a state document containing words of gratitude, ḥamdala, ṣalwala, and ḥasbala. "fa-ūqābil bi-l-shukr ʿalayhi inshāʾ Allāh".
Minute fragment of a Fatimid state document, probably a decree. Only the tail of a ي or a similar letter is preserved. Reused for Hebrew …
State document, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. A fiscal document, mentioning several sums of money including 600 dirhams, and "min al-khidma al-saʿīda". On verso, there …
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. A, fol.3 - State document or draft, in Arabic script. Contains an oversized …
State document in Arabic. Fragments of 4 lines are preserved.
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 …
Recto: Petition or report to a Fatimid vizier, ending only, including raʾy, ḥamdala and ḥasbala. 5th century AH/11th century CE. Possible join with T-S Ar.22.140 …
Fiscal document(s) in Arabic script. The document on verso is headed "Dīwān al-Khāṣṣ al-Saʿīd." This is followed by various sums of money. The text block …
Report to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ from a military official. The sender refers to previous petitions, and also makes a new request for a rescript. …
[ ] When the gross receipts headed with the [noble] motto arrived [ ]
[ ] on the verso of the document of the director of stipends, the footsoldi…
Official letter, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of 3 lines are preserved; upslanting and wide space between lines. Probably mentions Sidon(?). Needs examination for …
Some sort of receipt. Needs examination.
Tax receipt for Nuṣayr b. Saʿīd. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE).
Small fragment of Arabic document(s). Recto looks like part of a line from a state document. Verso has a mirror-image imprint of text from another …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Dated 505 H?