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  1. 801State documentT-S Ar.30.158

    State document, in chancery hand. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Probably a report mentioning the royal kitchen "maṭbakh" and lamb meat "laḥm al-kharīf." …

    1. ]ـن جملة (حمله=alt) الخريف
    2. ]رحه في المطبخ
    3. ]ـمها بالوزن فيه
    4. ] الفاصل منه بعد
    5. ]ـستعمل الى هذا

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  2. 802Legal documentT-S Ar.30.263

    Legal document, in Arabic script. Describing a property, probably put up as collateral or for lease. Beautifully written. Among other landmarks, mentions the mosque of …

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  3. 803State documentT-S Ar.30.308

    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 …

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  4. 804State documentT-S Ar.31.254 + T-S 24.31

    Large state document in Arabic script. Probably an official correspondence concerning the transport of some goods on a Nile boat (ʿushārī). Mentions the state official …

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  5. 805LetterT-S Ar.34.1

    Verso (original use): Letter fragment, with very little context. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. The last line indicates the announcement of something, "in …

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  6. 806State documentT-S Ar.34.65

    Petition, bottom left fragment, in Arabic script. Not a lot of content is preserved but the petitioner owes a debt and the ghuramāʾ are pressing …

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    1. ]وحمل الغرما الى[
    2. ]...على المملوك واحسانا[
    3. انهى ذلك والراي الاعلى [في ذلك ان شا الله]
    4. الحمد]لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا
    5. [محمد نبيه واله وسلم تس…

    1. ] and the debtors took him to [

    2.].. On the slave and kindness [

    3. ]he reports that and the lofty resolution [regarding this if God wills]

    4. ]

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  7. 807State documentT-S Ar.34.88

    Numerous drafts of the opening of a petition or an otherwise formal letter to the Fatimid Caliph al-ʾĀmir. In Arabic script. It is not clear …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وافضل 

    3. تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا الامام

    4. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    5. بسم الله…

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  8. 808State documentT-S Ar.34.208

    Tax receipt. For the capitation tax in Cairo and Fustat of [...] b. Mūsā al-Yahūdī. Payment: 2 dinars. Dated 16 Ṣafar of an unmentioned year.

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  9. 809State documentT-S Ar.34.241

    Tax receipt, with some less common features. Two of the endorsements at the top mention the dīwān al-iqṭāʿāt al-murtajaʿa (office of reclaimed fiefs), cf. T-S …

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  10. 810State documentT-S Ar.34.330

    Writing exercises in a chancery hand. "على العادة في مثله واما ما ذكرته" and "من ان مال الحمل بلاعمال التي مشارفها ". This may have …

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  11. 811State documentT-S Ar.34.342

    State report or petition. The ends of ~7 lines are preserved, widely spaced, written in a chancery hand. Possibly a complaint about people taking over …

    1. ]وصفوهم واشتاق[
    2. ا]ختيار عدة يكون معه[
    3. ]ان من احد شي وجا الخبر بان اهل القصا[
    4. ]لياخذورا بئارهم وبذلوا[
    5. ا]رذال وقاتل القوم وما علم ما انتهت
    6. ]واستولت ع…

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  12. 812State documentT-S Ar.35.31

    Verso (primary use): end of a petition containing a raʾy clause mentioning istikhrāj (extraction of taxes).

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    1. فان امرت مملوكها بالاستخراج من مولاي وخر...[
    2. ... مملوكها ذلك ولها ثبت الله النعم عليها وعنده الراي[الاعلى في ذلك ان شا الله

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  13. 813Legal documentT-S Ar.35.85

    Legal document. Fragment (left side). In Arabic script. The name Muḥammad appears in line 2 and the profession al-Ṣayrafī appears in line 3. Line 4 …

    1. بـ]ـسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. ]…….محمد الفروقي انه.............. 

    3. ا]لصيرفي مبلغ الورقة التي كانت له ومبلغها

    4. ]باسم تاريخها ثالث عشر من ذي القعدة س…

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  14. 814State documentT-S Ar.35.131

    Fragment of an official-looking (fiscal?) account in Arabic script. Needs further examination.

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  15. 815State documentT-S Ar.35.258

    Three lines from a letter to a high official with titles such as "sharaf al-umma" and "Kawkab a-Dawla." A state official by the title Kawkab …

    1. ……. العالم(؟) الدين
    2. شرف الامة كوكب الدولة عضد به الـ[دين و 
    3. ادام الله سعوده وتحقق مقصود[ه

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  16. 816State documentT-S Ar.35.367

    Verso: Small fragment of a decree, probably. Only a few letters are preserved.

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  17. 817State documentT-S Ar.35.370

    State document, most likely an official correspondence. Mentions the amīr Sayf al-Dawla's business dealings with the writer. Among the commodities mentioned are luxury textiles (ʿattābī …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. احضرت الثوب العتابي اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ الجليل وادام علاه وسلامته بحضور مولاي

    3. الامير سيف الدولة ومرضيها ادام الله …

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  18. 818State documentT-S Ar.37.209

    Verso: State document. In Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The beginnings of 7 lines are preserved. Possibly a decree? Talking about the destruction of …

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    1. واثاره معروفة في الـ[
    2. النواحي وافعالهم و[
    3. معروف والتي يحـ[
    4. خراب النواحي ولىـ[
    5. الجاري له بسبب الـ[
    6. ذلك ويجهد[

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  19. 819Legal documentT-S Ar.38.19

    Legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions the execution of something with "riḍā"(agreement). Dating: Possibly Ayyubid or Mamluk-era, but this should be checked. 11 fragmentary lines …

    1. .....
    2. الـ[ـعقد عن الرضى بذلك[
    3. ]بذلك كل منهما في
    4. ]احد من القاضي[
    5. الر]يس الكامل امين الحكم
    6. ]ـيوم ذاك بالقاهرة
    7. ]واي التي التابعة
    8. ]ويتقبقتها(؟؟) بما سبب…

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  20. 820Legal documentT-S Ar.38.38

    Deed of sale for a house (Wissem Gueddich FGP). Needs examination

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  21. 821LetterT-S Ar.38.56

    Verso: Letter to Abū l-Ḥasan from Abū Ḥājī (?). In Arabic script. The sender instructs the addressee to give the bearer, Durmī al-Qarmaṭī (probably the …

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  22. 822State documentT-S Ar.38.94

    Fiscal document, in Arabic script. The top reads as "ṭāʾifa Najrān al-qadīm". Also contains a cipher, probably related to archiving, on the top left.

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  23. 823Legal documentT-S Ar.38.101

    Strip of parchment from the end of a deed of sale, preserving the date: Jumādā I 434 AH = December 1042 / January 1043 CE. …

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    1. ولا سبب يقبض فيه ولا وضيعة ولا [   ]

    2. ]الاقرار عليها به وقبل ذلك [   ]فيها ابو سهل منشا هذا[

    3. ]طوعا وعلى صحة معرفتها جميعا وذلك في جمدى الا…

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  24. 824Legal documentT-S Ar.38.106

    Document of sale in Arabic. Records two transactions and a fuṣūl.

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  25. 825State documentT-S Ar.38.122

    State document, iqṭāʿ-related. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era, based on handwriting and format. The bottom 11 lines of the document are preserved. Moderately wide space between the …

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  26. 826List or tableT-S Ar.38.137

    Large list in two columns, covering both recto and verso. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Giving names of houses, their owners or tenants, numbers, …

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  27. 827State documentT-S Ar.38.139

    Draft of an official letter or correspondence, in Arabic script. The sender writes to the addressee "al-Amīr al-Raʾīs" that he will remain steadfast in his …

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    1. الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه واله وسلام 

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. ]من خدمة سيدنا الامير الاجل الريس
    3. ادام الل…

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  28. 828LetterT-S Ar.39.52

    Informal note (petition?) in Arabic script addressed to "al-Shaykh al-Rayyis al-Muwaffaq." There is a version of a raʾy clause (والراي ما يراه المولى). The sender …

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    1. المملوك المحب
    2. ابي البركات
    3. النعمان

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    1. ]الشيخ الريس الموفق ادام الله سعادتك ان كان[
    2. ]لى في عمل ما تقدم به القول و…

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  29. 829List or tableT-S Ar.39.92

    Accounts or register of some sort. In Arabic script. Interesting format: each text block corresponds to an individual who is named in the right column …

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  30. 830Legal documentT-S Ar.39.104

    Legal document in Arabic script written on paper, nearly complete. Starts with the formula ا]شهدني]. Involves Sulaymān b. Dāʾūd (?) known as Ibn ʿIzza (?) …

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  31. 831State documentT-S Ar.39.140

    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 …

    1. الديوان(؟) اسعده الله(؟) الكريم الاخص الاوحد 

    2. الريس المفضل المخدوم زين الدين سيد الامرا

    3. فخر الخواص عمدة الملوك ثقة السلاطين

    4. خليل امير المؤمني…

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  32. 832LetterT-S Ar.39.222

    Letter/report, concerning a legal matter regarding occupancy/tenancy (sakn). The beginnings of five lines are preserved. Mentions someone named Ibrāhīm b. Maḥbūb al-Muhandis in l. 3, …

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  33. 833State documentT-S Ar.39.223

    Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, written in a rudimentary hand. The sender (or the person he is writing on behalf of) wishes to …

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    1. حضرته الاجلية ما سبق به كريم وعدها له ما اظن انـ[ـه] تخفى

    2. عن حضرته المحروسة جائحة عبدها ياخذ جميع ما قد كان

    3. يحصل له وقد عزم على العود الى…

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  34. 834Literary textT-S Ar.39.248

    Fragment of a literary text, in Arabic script. Bifolio of a larger Arabic text, mentioning a conversation between ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān (646-705; the fifth …

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  35. 835State documentT-S Ar.39.248

    Fatimid state document, most likely a decree, in Arabic script. Reused for a bifolio of a larger historiographical text in Arabic, see different entry.

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  36. 836Literary textT-S Ar.39.331

    Literary text, in Arabic script. Most of the lines, especially on verso, are from the prayer to be recited in the month of Ramadan in …

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  37. 837State documentT-S Ar.39.387

    Fatimid state document, fragment, probably an investiture. The document is written in the dual, addressed to two officials: "Hurry up with it and report what …

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    1. ]العمال للنائب عليها خطوط المشارفين 

    2. ]فبادرا بذلك وطالعا بما يتضح لكما مبينا ليتأمل

    3. ]ويكون العمل بحسبه

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    1. ]العمال للنائب عليها خطو…

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  38. 838Legal documentT-S Ar.39.392

    An important and extremely unusual Arabic legal/communal document using Jewish legal formulae and invoking Moses (Mūsā b. ʿImrān al-Rasūl), appointing Sahlān b. Barhūn […] al-Mumḥe …

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  39. 839List or tableT-S Ar.39.399

    Accounts in Arabic script. Detailing the arrival of various consignments of Oriental goods like lacquer, frankincense, and pepper, it all seems to be by caravan. …

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    1. ]ـــل ووصل من سنة ذي القعدة من هذه السنة عدل فيه

    2. ] الوزن ماتي وتسعين

    3. ووصل سلخ ذي القعدة سنة ثلث وثمانين وثلمائة من جهات محمد بن علي

    4. احد…

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  40. 840State documentT-S Ar.39.445

    State document, Fatimid decree, in Arabic script. The decree is addressed to the military general Fāris al-Dawla. The document is a draft as the recto …

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    1. ]ضو[
    2. رسها سها نصره نصره
    3. نصره الله الله واظفره واحسن حسن عونه
    4. وتوفيقه سلام سلام عليك فان
    5. امير المومنين يحمد اليك ال…

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  41. 841LetterT-S Ar.39.490

    Letter addressed to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal, in Alexandria. Fragment (left side of recto). In Arabic script, in an eloquent style. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. …

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  42. 842State documentT-S Ar.40.13

    State document, in Arabic script. Regarding proceedings in the Office of Inspection in the province of al-Fayyūm. Abū Fatḥ Allāh Shawār b. Yūsuf, the chief …

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    1. بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم

    2. حضر الى ديوان الاشراف بالاعمال

    3. الفيومية ابي فتح اللـه سوار بن يوسف

    4. الناىب عن البيادير المستوفي في خزانة\خزان

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  43. 843State documentT-S Ar.40.73

    State document, in Arabic script. Drafts of two petitions, oriented at 180˚ to each other. The one at the top begins with a taqbīl and …

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  44. 844State documentT-S Ar.40.106

    Fatimid fiscal document, in Arabic script. Mentions two different bureaus: dīwan al-jihād al-miṣrī (line 2) and dīwān al-ḥubūs al-miṣriyya (line 7), probably mentioning a transfer …

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  45. 845State documentT-S Ar.40.118

    Mamluk-era state document in Arabic script. Dated: 675 AH = 1276/77 CE. Contains various annotations by clerks and is endorsed by both thin and thick …

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  46. 846LetterT-S Ar.40.196

    Copy of the beginning of a letter addressed to a religious authority. In Arabic, written in ornate prose. The layout is literary; it may have …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. امتثلت ما رسمته حضرة مولاي الشيخ الجليل
    3. حرس الله عزها وكبت حسدتها وحمل الكافة 
    4. ببقايها واعدت اليها ما تطولت بانفاذه من
    5. اجوبة …

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  47. 847Legal documentT-S Ar.41.58

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 8 Jumādā II 907. A (sale?) contract beginning with "qabaḍ al-muʿallim Aḥmad b. Yūsuf" concerning several people, one of …

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  48. 848Legal documentT-S Ar.41.92

    Deed of sale for the sale of half a house in Fusṭāṭ, in the ‘Fortress of the Greeks’ (qaṣr al-Rūm known as the qaṣr al-shamʿ). …

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    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبیه وسـ]ـلامه 

    2. [هذا ما ا]شترى منه صفقة واحدة وعقدا واحدا جميع الحصة التي مبل…

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    1. [In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone and  his blessings upon our Lord Muḥammad and] his peace.  
    2. [This …

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  49. 849State documentT-S Ar.42.59

    Letter in Arabic script, previously catalogued as a memorandum from one Fatimid official to another. Needs examination. Tax receipt on verso.

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  50. 850Legal documentT-S Ar.42.116

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 962 AH, which is 1554/55 CE. (Or possibly just 960 AH.) Involves ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAlī b. …

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