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551LetterAIU XII.85
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Ramaḍān 1133 Hijrī (26 June 1721–25 July 1721 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Arabic business letter sent from Istanbul (or written by someone named Constantine??), with the format closely resembling the Judaeo-Arabic letters ca.1800 CE. Needs further examination.
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552LetterAIU XII.104
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Arabic
Difficult-to-read and very brief Arabic document, containing the common but mysterious glyph لے at the top of recto and phrases such as "mamlūkuhu", 'li l-sharṭ' …
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553Unknown typeAIU XII.89
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Image 1: The end of an account in Arabic, along with what might be a fragment of a legal document discussing buildings in ḥārat al-yahūd. …
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554LetterAIU XII.118
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4 Rajab 1236 Hijrī (7 April 1821 CE)
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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: A brief note in Arabic addressed to David ben Naʿim and signed by [...] ʿUmar [...] Nāẓir al-Amwāl. There are also accounts/sums at the …
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555List or tableAIU XII.106
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12 Muharram 1237 Hijrī (9 October 1821 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
4 pages. 3 of them are brief notes, along with accounts, signed and sealed by Anṭūn al-Wakīl aka Anṭūn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf to a certain muʿallim …
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556State documentENA 3971.13
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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557Paraliterary textAIU XII.168
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Arabic
An amulet in quirky Arabic script. The main section is Quran 3:18.
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558List or tableENA NS 7.79
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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
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; …
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559Legal documentENA 684.4
Legal query and responsum in Arabic script. The query is written in a tiny handwriting with a thin pen, begins with the words ʾallaḏī ... …
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560State documentENA 3971.14
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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561Literary textENA 3932.8
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Arabic
Recipe or instructions in Arabic script. Likely alchemical. Mentions lead (three lines from the bottom) and "it becomes elixir" (iksīr) in the next line. On …
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562State documentENA 3971.15
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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563State documentENA 3971.16
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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564State documentENA 3971.17
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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565State documentENA 3971.18
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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566State documentENA 3971.19
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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567State documentENA 3971.20
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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568State documentENA 3971.21
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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569State documentENA 3971.22
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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570State documentENA 3971.24
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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571State 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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572State documentENA 3971.34
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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573State documentHalper 481
Document date
4 Shawwāl 602 Hijrī (14 May 1206 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
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 …
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574State documentT-S 20.80
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Arabic
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 …
1. في المسجدين الجامعين الحافظي والحاكمي
2. فيضورك من تاخر جائهم فقد خرج
3. الامر الى الديوان بذكر ما عنده في ذلك
4. فاعلم هذا امر أمير المومنين ورسمه
1. In the two congregational mosques, the mosque of al-Ḥāfiẓ and the mosque of al-Ḥākim.
2. You will suffer if their arrival is delayed. For the order …
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575Legal documentT-S Ar.41.141
Primary language
Arabic
Legal document in Arabic script. Declaration (iqrār). Dating: Perhaps 14th century, on paleographic grounds. The Qaraite Mūsā b. ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq b. ʿAbd al-Karīm confirms to …
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576LetterENA 1822a.62
Letter written by someone who trains himself in writing a letter. The beginning of the letter reads: (1) bismi llāh al-raḥmān al-raḥim (2) waṣala kitabuka …
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577List or tableT-S Misc.24.106
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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
List in large Arabic script. Perhaps materia medica? Saffron (zaʿfarān) appears. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic jottings of formulaic phrases from a letter and the beginning of …
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578State documentT-S Ar.40.55
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Arabic
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 …
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579State documentT-S Misc.6.5
Primary language
Arabic
Tax receipt for jawālī with registration marks.
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580State documentT-S Misc.6.5
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State document that begins "waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr."
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581State documentDK 246.2
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Arabic
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb (see Khan, ALAD, pp. 140–59). He pays a half dinar for the year 404 AH.
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582LetterT-S 8J18.17
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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
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 …
1. ]אן תקדם פצלך וגמילך ואחסאנך אלהי
2. ]פצל ואעלמה אן וצל אלי כתאב באן .
3. ]קד גרי עלי אהלי מן אלהואן מן אלסלטאן
4. מן גהה] אלכראג לאן עלי סנתין תמאן ותסע והד…
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583Paraliterary textT-S Ar.34.153
Primary language
Arabic
Occult text in Arabic script. Mentions the jinns, the shayāṭīn, al-waswās al-khannās (from Quran 114:4).
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584LetterT-S Ar.39.386
Document date
7 Rabīʿ I 644 Hijrī (23 July 1246 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
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 …
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585State documentT-S Ar.42.51
Primary language
Arabic
State document: On verso, titulature in calligraphic script, including al-khilāfa al-fāṭimiyya, which is rare (maybe hapax) in documentary texts.
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586State documentT-S Ar.35.48
State document: End of a Fatimid petition or report from the period of al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or earlier.
1. [صلوات الله عليه وعلى اباىه الطاهرين وابناىه الـ]
2. منتظرين والاجابة عن ذلك له في غيرها ذلك و[رايـ]ـها [العالـ]ـي
3. فيما سله بثقته ان شا الله تعال…
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587LetterAIU XII.124
Document date
Shawwal 1076 Hijrī (6 April 1666–4 May 1666 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Letter in Arabic to Hayyim al-Ṣarrāf (moneychanger/banker) in the High Diwan. The writer's full name is difficult to read (ʿĀ___ __rdī[?]) as is the …
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588Literary textNLI 577.1/29
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Arabic
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 …
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589Paraliterary textNLI 577.1/33
Primary language
Arabic
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a medical prescription: the word sharāb (syrup) appears in the first line, and words for weights (dirham and ūqiya) appear …
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590Paraliterary textT-S AS 162.51
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Arabic, Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic
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 …
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591LetterENA 2964.19
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Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an illness and Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī. Also mentions Shimʿon and "fulān" suggesting it could be a draft or something legal. On …
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592Credit instrument or private receiptAIU XII.42
Document date
Sha'ban 1248 Hijrī (24 December 1832–21 January 1833 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Probably a receipt for a rent payment by Yashūʿ (?) al-Yahūdī for his store (? ḥānūt) in ḥārat al-yahūd, mentioning the date Dec 1832/Jan 1833 …
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593State documentENA 3844.14
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Arabic
State document, possibly a decree. Suggests orders conferred upon an authority: hayʾat (?) l-muṭālaʿa wa-l-āʿmāl bihā. There is Arabic script in another not-so-elegant hand and …
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594State documentT-S Ar.22.140 + T-S K25.221
Primary language
Arabic
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 …
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1. ولمولانا الوزير الأجل صفى أمير المؤمنين وخالصته ادام الله علاه وكبت اعداه
2. الراى العالي في ذلك ان شا الله
3. والحمد لله وصلواته على…
1. 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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595List or tableCUL Or.1080 J104
Primary language
Arabic
Account of the Qodesh: payments to building workers, ca. 1045. Two fragments written in Arabic script, on vellum, the verso of a letter. Apparently, this …
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1. بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم
2. اثبات ما عملو صناع [
3. ]يوم اﻻثنين الذى ثلثه عشر من ذى الحجه [
4. وهو اليوم الثالث لعيد اﻻضحى
5. صانعين اسم الواحد عبد ا[لله
6. يوم ا…
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1. In the Name of God, the merciful:
2. Record of the work done by the special masons….
3. .......... Monday, 13 Dhūʾl-ḥijja,
4. the 3rd day of…
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596LetterMoss. IV,40.3
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Legal query for a qāḍī in Arabic script regarding a man "known for ḥujaj" (unpaid promissory notes?), and there are several testimonies against him, …
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1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. ما يقول مولاي القاضي الفقيه المخلص النبيه جمال العلـ[ـما
3. وفقه الله لما يرضيه في رجل معترف في حجج معاملـ[ـة
4. وعلي…
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597State documentT-S Ar.34.197
Petition, draft, from an ex-government servant asking for work, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or possibly earlier. Recto, from later reuse: …
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1. عـ[ـبدها ]
2. [بسم الله ا]لرحمن الرحيم
3. [عبدها ومملوكها ينهـ]ـي الى جلالها حرس الله عزها وضاعف سعدتها
4. [وكبت حسادها وضعفها] وينهي انه من ج…
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598State documentT-S Ar.34.197
Tax receipt, Fatimid, in the hand of Mikhaʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masiḥ, from the caliphate of al-Ḥakim.
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599LetterAIU XII.87
Document date
19 Safar 1224 Hijrī (5 April 1809 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Letter in Arabic addressed to Muhammad Ḥasan al-ʿAttar in Fustat/Cairo, from a certain Hajj Muhammad ʿAthari (?) al-Attar. Appears to be dated 5 April 1809 …
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600List or tableT-S 20.144
Document date
603 Hijrī (8 August 1206–27 July 1207 CE)
Primary languages
Arabic, Coptic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
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 …
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