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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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Recto: Accounts in Arabic script. Verso: Lists of household items in Judaeo-Arabic. No values given. There are separate lists for garments (... mukhmal; niṣfiyya jadīda; …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called 'my brother.' The content is not clear; mentions someone fearing death and mentions the capitation tax (jizya).
Fiscal account, probably a tax receipt, beginning with the waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr, probably a receipt of delivery to the bayt al-māl. Mentions several …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Part of the text contains an epistolary exchange written in verses, full of expressions of heartsickness and longing. The extract …
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a medical prescription: the word sharāb (syrup) appears in the first line, and words for weights (dirham and ūqiyya) appear …
Recto: Letter of appeal from Mahfūẓ b. Mūsā and his brother Musallam/Muslim. In calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic. The writer describes the humiliation his family (or wife?) has …
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Recto: Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. Partial translation from S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2:271: "I am …
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Letter from an unknown writer to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer rebukes the addressee for failing to write with his news. Everyone has …
Fatimid decree. The decree is from the period of al-Hafiz (1131–49) and mentions the congregational mosques of al-Ḥākim (in Cairo) and al-Ḥāfiẓ (it is not …
في المسجدين الجامعين الحافظي والحاكمي
فيضورك من تاخر جائهم فقد خرج
الامر الى الديوان بذكر ما عنده في ذلك
فاعلم هذا امر أمير المومنين ورسمه
In the two congregational mosques, the mosque of al-Ḥāfiẓ and the mosque of al-Ḥākim.
You will suffer if their arrival is delayed. For the order
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Accounts in Arabic script with names and numbers arranged in neat columns. Needs examination. The space around this document has been filled with Judaeo-Arabic text …
Report to a Fatimid vizier. Dating: fifth/eleventh century. Khan published T-S K25.221 as the end of petition. Marina Rustow later found the join to the …
ولمولانا الوزير الأجل صفى أمير المؤمنين وخالصته ادام الله علاه وكبت اعداه
الراى العالي في ذلك ان شا الله
والحمد لله وصلواته على…
To my master, the mighty vizier, the sincere and intimate friend of the commander of the faithful, may God cause his exaltation to endure and crush…
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Occult text in Arabic script. Mentions the jinns, the shayāṭīn, al-waswās al-khannās (from Quran 114:4).
Petition, draft, from an ex-government servant asking for work, presumably from a government official. From the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or possibly …
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State document: End of a Fatimid petition or report from the period of al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or earlier.
Letter of appeal from a man, unknown location, to Musallam (or Musallama) Abū ʿAlī, the wakīl of Shams al-Dīn Ildakīz al-Birṭāsī, in Minyat Bāsik in …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script (with the words שער הנשיאות in Hebrew) to a Nasi, by ʿImrān b. Muhājir. According to Goitein's note card, it …
المملوك الاصغر
عمران بن مهاجر
يقبل الارض بالمقر الشريف المولوي النبوي اعاد الله علينا
وعلى اولادنا بركاته واعتقادنا في شرفه وفي اعراقه
الز…
Fatimid fiscal requisition for the dīwān al-jaysh, including information about an iqtā`. Contains a request for registration and at least one registration mark.
Fiscal account. Contains multiple entries, each marked with nuqila, “it has been copied.” Khan dates this document to the same period as T-S Ar.40.37, which …
Acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 14th–16th century on paleographic grounds and based on the mention of the Dār Simḥa synagogue. A precise date …
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State document: On verso, titulature in calligraphic script, including al-khilāfa al-fāṭimiyya, which is rare (maybe hapax) in documentary texts.
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
The most lofty and singular lord, the firm,
the confidence, the trustworthy, pride …
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Spell of destruction. In Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic, with a postscript in Arabic script ("for killing, very useful"). See Niessen, F., & Bohak, G. (2007). ‘Destroy …
Letter in Arabic script. The writer is in Aden. He reports that something of the addressee's is safe in his keeping. "If his (or your?) …
Tax receipt for jawālī with registration marks.
State document that begins "waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr."
Account in large Arabic script. Saffron (zaʿfarān) appears. Weights are given in arṭāl and awāqī. Other items may be textiles with the unit of adhruʿ …
Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.20 + ENA 641.22 + ENA 641.24. …
Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.19 + ENA 641.21 + ENA 641.23. …
State document, fragment of a longer text, dismembered at the collesis. What has remained is wa-mā tawfīqī illā bi-l-lāh. Possibly Ayyubid (tawfīqī billāh was an …
Letter fragment from an unknown writer in Syria to 'Rabbenu' in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the capitation tax (... al-jawālī) in al-Shām and specifically mentions …
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 …
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Magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script and magical script. Including a birth control recipe: "If you want a woman not to become pregnant. . …
Letter addressed to al-Shaykh al-Ajal al-Raʾis Abū ʿĪmrān Mūsā (Shelomo b. Mūsā al-Mahdāwī in al-Mahdiyya) from his business associate (Peraḥya b. Yosef in Fusṭāṭ) regarding …
مملوكه
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عبد حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل الريس ابو
عمران موسى اطال الله بقاك وادام عزك ونعماك
ومن حسن التوفي…
Recto: Document in Arabic script. Possibly a letter. Rudimentary handwriting and orthography. Sings the praises of a Coptic sage in Alexandria. This sage is versed …
Capitation tax receipt, Fatimid. For Abū Naṣr b. Yūsuf (someone with this name also appears in T-S 10J30.15). One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn. …
India Book V, 42.5. Receipt in the hand of Abu Zikri Kohen: saḥḥa lil-shaykh Abū l-Surūr dirham wa-niṣf la-ghayr. Old IB: 229f. There is a …
Template fragment of a divination/magical charm starting with a few words of prayers followed by a spell: "fulān b. fulān". Then: 'blind his heart and …
Original document: Accounts in very small Arabic script. Subsequent document: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to a woman. Written in the spaces around the original …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Dating: 12th century. Featuring Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel Al-Dimyāṭī, the brother of Ḥalfon b. Netanel, as well as Khalaf …