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Legal document, probably dating to the late Mamlūk/early Ottoman era. Mentions grains and vegetables (al-ḥubūb wa al-mazrūʿāt), al-dhahab al-Ashrafī, the Nile (baḥr al-Nīl al-Mubārak), the …
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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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Original use: Two lines from a petition or report about property rights, mentioning an alley (zuqāq) in Fustat and something under the name of al-qāḍī …
فـ[ـسطاط مصر بزقاق بني نكير بحافة جلنار يعرف بالقاضي السد[يد
]ـها …. في موضعها ومن حقوق كلية العبد كوم كان منها قديما صفية(؟) مرقل(؟)
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State-issued receipt for al-Muʿallam Salmūn Iskenderānī who is listed with the administrative title "عامل" (financial intendant or collector of revenues). Dated: "in the end of …
Fiscal register (possibly equivalent to what al-Makhzūmī and Ibn Mammātī call a rūznāmaj). Contains multiple entries, each with a date and a sum. Each entry …
Recto: Letter from Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to Abū l-Ḥasan. In Arabic script. Pleading for a loan of 20 dirhams against …
مملوكه بن مملوكه صنيعته بركات بن الديان ابو الفرج
يقبل يدي المولى السيد الاجل المنعم المحسن المتفضل الكريم الشيخ
الجليل الفاضل الاصيل الكبير ال…
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Two registration marks; 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi l-muwaffiq li-ḥamdihi' and 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn'. Blank verso. Perforated for binding.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Trigger: addā.
Tax receipt, jizyā, dated 507 H (?). Pinholes at the margin 5mm apart.
Mercantile memorandum or bill of lading (tadhkira) in Arabic script. Listing items that were shipped with a certain captain (al-rayyis... al-Ḥayfī) for Abū Ṭāhir b. …
Tax receipt, sixth century AH. Trigger: addā. Few names on verso. Written by and for the same people as ENA 3944.3 (PGPID 10465), but registered …
Tax receipt for the capitation of Bū l-ʿAlā b. Afḍal yahūdī for the year 500H.
Tax receipt or commercial account or receipt.
Family letter in Arabic script, from a distant man to his children and wife. Dating: Probably Mamluk era, or possibly early Ottoman era, based on …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration marks - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran and al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration mark - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh l-mutqin li-mā (badaʿ?)
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Fiscal account, Fatimid, for the sum of 2 dīnārs. Opens: waṣala ilā bayt al-māl. Two registration marks: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh wa-bihi nastaʿīn, al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih.
Receipt issued by a waqf overseer (ناظر وقف) for "ground rent" (حكر) of properties in the "the Jewish quarter" of Cairo (حكر القاعات بحارت اليهود). …
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. …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. One registration mark; 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq'. Blank verso. Perforated for binding.
Tax receipt, sixth century AH. Trigger: addā. Written by and for the same people as ENA 3944.4 (PGPID 10466), but registered and authenticated by different …
Verso: Tax receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 14 Ṣafar 404. Measurements: …
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Tax receipt for jizya in the name of Bū Naṣr al-Yahūdī for the year 514. Trigger: addā. Contains a registration mark.
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) in Fustat for Mawhūb b. Ghālib, a Christian. Dated: 537 AH = 1142/43 CE (previous PGP descriptions gave the …
Tax receipt, late Fatimid, for the jizya payment of a Jewish person (name difficult to read), with registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq', praise …
Deed of lease for an apartment (ṭabaqa). In Arabic script. Dated: 25 Ṣafar 919 AH = 2 May 1513 CE. Lessee: Manṣūr b. Najīb (b.) …
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era, perhaps 18th or 19th century. Seems to have been abandoned halfway through. There are a few words in Hebrew …
ازكى السلام التام والتحيات والاكرام تهدي(؟) ذاكر(؟) ويخص(؟) الى
حضرة الجناب المكرم السيد محمود عابدين اعزه الله
ودام بقاه امين
اما بعد نعرفكم…
Verso: Letter in Arabic script, in a book hand. Opens with two verses of poetry, then probably a taqbīl ([... al-a]rḍ), then greetings for the …