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  1. 51State 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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  2. 52State 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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  3. 53State 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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  4. 54LetterENA NS 52.13

    Letter from Yosef ha-Levi to Yosef Bagilyer. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century. Concerning tax farming. Mentions two rich and famous figures …

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    1. [.........................] אדונ[י....................] ב׳׳ה
    2. [...] בשמו יתעלה אחר אשר יגמר הענין לטובה ב׳׳ה
    3. [...]ן ביאת אדוני למצרים צריך היות…

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  5. 55LetterENA NS 68.6

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports on receiving authorization (al-ʿalāma) to collect the kharāj tax from the official in charge of estates (ʿāmil al-mawārīth). …

    1. כ]אן פי אלכתאב אלמ[דכור

    2. ]כרג לעאמל אלמוארית בכמסה ועשר[ין דינארא ברסם

    3. אבו אלמפצ̇ל ואכדת אלעלאמה עליהם וסל[מת] אלבר[אה אלי אבו]

    4. אלמפצ̇ל וקבצ̇…

    1. [...] in the af[orementioned] document [...]

    2. it came out to 25 [dīnārs] to the administrator of estates [for]

    3. Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. I obtained the r…

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  6. 56Legal documentENA NS 77.254

    Notes for the drawing up of a deed of sale for an enslaved person. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? One of the parties …

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  7. 57State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 262

    Fiscal (or other?) receipt. Arabic writing, Coptic numbers.

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  8. 58LetterJTS MS 8254.12

    Recto: Letter fragment, probably in the hand of the judge Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq, addressed to Moshe Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on the arrival …

    1. [                                             ] תפארת כבוד גדולת קדושת מרינו ורבינו אדוננו נגידנו
    2. [                                      מרד]כי הזמן…
    1. [. . .] תפארת כבוד גדולת קדושת מרינו ורבינו אדוננו נגידנו
    2. [. . . מרד]כי הזמן ועם קדושים נאמן אור עולם ופלאו ממזרח
    3. [שמש עד מבואו עבדו מנשק את] רגליו …

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  9. 59State documentL-G Ar. II.79

    Capitation tax receipt for Sulaymān al-yahūdī b. Mūsā al-yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib (?). Dated 24 Dhū l-Ḥijja 524 AH (1130 CE). Not authenticated at the top by …

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  10. 60LetterMoss. Ia,12.1

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaʾon (in the hand of his son Avraham) to Egypt. Mentions oppressive laws and heavy taxes and punishments and requests …

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    1. ומו[
    2. זוכרי[ם
    3. עם ב[
    4. שכינת עו[לם
    5. ישמרו צורנ[ו
    6. אשר עלינו וטוב [
    7. אוכלים אותנו ח[יים
    8. עליהם חוקים חקו[קים
    9. תחלה המס הכבד אש[ר
    10. והעונש אשר לשום ל[
    11. העיר …

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  11. 61LetterMoss. IV,14.3

    Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Interesting format: the opening praises are written in large blocky Hebrew, with the remaining content in …

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  12. 62LetterMoss. VII,159.1

    Letter from a retired old Alexandrian merchant to a friend in Fustat. One side is a letter in Arabic script and the other side is …

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  13. 63State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.1

    Possibly a tax receipt or an order of payment. Two endorsements, end of Dhū l-Qaʿda of the year 403 (?) 6x8 cm, verso blank. Item …

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  14. 64State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.10

    Tax receipt, Fatimid, possibly for the year 414? 11.5 x 10.5. NB: There is a discrepancy between the numbering of the manuscripts and the photos; …

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  15. 65State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.17

    Receipt for tax dated 701 (1302)

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  16. 66Legal documentT-S 8J10.17

    Husband who intends to travel abroad allocates 20 dirhams per month, namely, five per week, for his wife, plus some wheat, the 20 dirhams to …

    1. חצר אבו אלפרג בן גזאל אל
    2. קיסראני אקני מן רוחה טאיע
    3. גיר מגבר אנה יקום ל[זוגתה
    4. אם אולאדה פי כל שהר בכ
    5. דרהם כל אס //ביע// ה דראהם וובתין(!)
    6. קמח טייב וח…

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    1. Abual-Faḍl, son of Ghazal the Alexandrian, came

    2.  And obligated himself with a qinyan of his own free will

    3. And not under duress, (so) that…

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  17. 67List or tableT-S 8J41.13

    Census for the capitation tax. List of male persons with consecutive numbers over the names. First complete no. visible is 19, but some names are …

    1. בו סעד בן [
    2. אולאד נביקה אבו ע.[

    יט ך

    1. יחזקאל זהרה אסחק כהן כרים בן [

    כג כד

    1. וסרור בן גוית אבו [[עמר צבאג]] אבו אלכיר טיב? אם ב..

    כה כו כז

    1. תנא לו…

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  18. 68LetterT-S 13J6.30

    Letter from Yosef to Abū l-Fakhr asking him to help contest his obligation to pay the capitation tax of his brother, who was missing in …

    1. בשם אל עולם יתברך נצח סלה
    2. שארע מן כאדמהא יוסף לכ גד קד מר ורב השר הגדול
    3. בעם ייי צבאות הנדיב והשוע שהוא עשה כמה חסדים
    4. וטובות בסתר ובגל[וי מ]ולאי אלאג…

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  19. 69LetterT-S 13J21.10

    Recto (secondary use): Late letter in Hebrew to R. Shelomo ha-Sofer from "your wife Dona Soro (=Sara?) and your daughters Reina and Raḥel and your …

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    1. שלום רב וישע יקרב למורי ואדוני אור עיני ועטרת
    2. ראשי אדוני אישי כבוד ר שלמה הסופר יל קבל
    3. רוב שלום מאדון השלום ומני דונה סורו זוגתך
    4. ובנותיך ריינה…

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  20. 70State documentT-S Ar.40.161

    Recto: Arabic-script document containing several sections. The lower part may be a tax receipt for a sum received from Zuhayr b. [...] from the ḍamān …

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  21. 71LetterT-S AS 132.237

    Letter fragment (lower right of recto, lower left of verso) in lovely handwriting. Mentions the capitation tax, hunger, and charity. On verso a woman seems …

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  22. 72State documentT-S AS 177.330

    Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: …

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    1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف              يثبت بديوان العمل
    2. ان شا الله                                            ان شا الله
    3.                   …

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    Registration mark on right

    1. Let it be registered on behalf of the office of supervision,
    2. if God wills.

    Registration mark on left

    1. Let it be re…

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  23. 73State documentT-S AS 178.233

    Tax receipt issued for the ḍumanāʾ of Sinnūris against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 26 Jumādā I 405 (Khan: 22 Jumādā I …

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    1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف                يثبت بديوان العمل
    2. ان شا الله                                            ان شاالله 
    3.                 …

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    Registration mark on right

    1. Let it be registered on behalf of the office of supervision,
    2. if God wills.

    Registration mark on left

    1. Let it be r…

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  24. 74State documentT-S AS 183.66

    Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 13 Jumādā II 403 AH (December 1012 CE). Written …

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    1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف           يثبت بديوان العمل
    2. ان شا الله                                       ان شا الله
    3. اثبتو المبلغ ثلاثة ونصف   …

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    Registration mark on right

    1. Let it be registered on behalf of the office of supervision,
    2. if God wills.
    3. They have registered the amount of three…

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  25. 75LetterT-S Misc.25.22

    Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. After many nice phrases, the body …

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  26. 76State documentT-S NS 306.137

    Recto: Bottom of a letter (official letter?) in Arabic script. Verso: Tax receipt issued by ʿArafāt(?) b. al-Naqīb the silk tax farmer (ḍāmin al-ḥarīr) to …

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  27. 77LetterAIU VII.E.165

    Letter fragment to a certain ḥaver ("... ba-sanhedrin gedolah...") describing the writer's financial distress. He also provides a recommendation for the bearer of the letter, …

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    1. ] תורה בר הדרת יקרת
    2. החבר] בסנהדרין גדולה החכם והנבון
    3. ] זלהה אנה לה אליום פי אלבלאד
    4. ] פסיקה ולא פי רסם מן אלציבור
    5. ] . ה אלפנא ואלגלא כאן ודין י…

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  28. 78Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/8

    Sub-leasing agreement. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Monday, 8 Shevaṭ 4866 = 15 January 1106 CE. In which Musāfir b. ʿEli, the tax farmer of …

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    1. שהדותא דהוה באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתימ[י]ן חתמות ידנא ל[תחת
    2. שטרא דא כן הוה חצר אלינא מסאפר בר עלי סט צאמן אלחריר ואלצבג
    3. בדמיאט וקאל לנא אשהדו עלי ו…

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    1. Testimony of what transpired before us, we the witnesses whose signatures are at the bottom of

    2. this document. Thus it was: Musāfir b. ʿAlī,…

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  29. 79State documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/10

    Fiscal document, top and bottom missing. Refers to kharāj payments for the year 437 kharājī (about five lines up from the bottom of the page); …

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  30. 80Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/17

    Sub-leasing agreement of a tax farm of silk production for the town of Bush and its surroundings, which was worth 3.5 dinars. Dated Tammuz 1458/ …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא סוף שטרא דנן כן
    2. הוה בחדש תמוז דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה וחמשין ותמניא שנין לשטרות
    3. באלפסטאט רשותיה דאדונ…

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    1. Testimony of what transpired before us, we the witnesses who have signed at the end of this document, thus 
    2. it was: in the month of Tammuz of …

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  31. 81LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/40

    Letter from Avraham b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā, presumably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1075 CE, several months after the death of …

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    1. כתאבי יאכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך
    2. וסעאדתך ומא תחב עלמה אן תקדם כתאבי אליך מע חסון וערפתך פיה
    3. וצול כתאבך מן קבל אלעיד…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אחי ואדוני היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויחמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך,
    2. ואת אושרך. אשר למה שרצית לדעת: שלחתי לך לפני כן מכת…

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  32. 82LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/135

    Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen, possibly in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Urging him to collect money to pay the capitation tax of …

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  33. 83LetterBodl. MS heb. f 107/53

    Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer needs help paying the capitation tax (jāliya). The addressee had previously said something about talking to …

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  34. 84LetterCUL Or.1080 J87

    Letter sent by the community of Fustat to a place in the Egyptian Rif, asking to help a Palestinian named Daniel, as the local people …

    1. וחית וצל דניאל דנן אלי מחרוסה מצר והו //ועיאלה// כאנו
    2. כאנו אלגמאעה ברוכים יהיו משגולין ענה בגואלי אלעניים
    3. נייף עלי תסעין עני //אלי אלאן// וזנו גואלי…

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  35. 85LetterENA 1822a.30

    Letter fragment in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshuaʿ ha-Nagid regarding taxation, including the fee for the police (tarsīm). Mentioned in Goitein, "The Twilight …

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  36. 86Legal documentENA 2559.12

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 17 Adar II 1597 Seleucid = 15 March 1286 CE. The communal officials (khuddām) who collect the capitation taxes in …

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    1. כאן בתאריך אלסאבע עשר מן שהר [אדר] שני שנת
    2. אלפא וחמש מאיה ותשעין ושבע שנין לשטרות במצר
    3. חצרו אלכאדאם אלדי יגבו אלגואל במצר והם הבה אבן
    4. אבו אלפר…

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  37. 87LetterENA 2805.14

    Upper fragment: Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Alexandria to his uncle Abū l-Khayr Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī in Fustat. Dating: Friday, [probably 25] Nisan …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלפאצל ואדאם עזה וסלאמתה וכבת
    2. חסדתה ועדוה מן אלאסכנדריה יום אלגמעה ל.... בקין מן ניסן [כת]מה אללה
    3. עליה ועלינא …

    ע׳׳א:

    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי האציל, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך, וישמיד
    2. את מקנאיך ואת אויביך, מאלכסנדריה, ביום ו׳, ….…

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  38. 88State documentENA 3926.9

    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 …

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  39. 89LetterENA 3958.6

    Letter from Manṣūr(?) b. [...] possibly to a younger relative Yūsuf (وينهي ان المملوك مشتاق الى خدمة ولده يوسف). In Arabic script. Looks like a …

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  40. 90State 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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  41. 91State documentENA 3971.31

    Small receipt, for 42.5 dirhams. The scribe/jahbadh is Yūḥannā b. SYMLJ(?), responsible for all of ENA 3972 and many of the ENA 3971 receipts. Previous …

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  42. 92LetterENA 4009.4

    Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Ḥakīm, in Sicily, to Ḥananya ha-Kohen Av Bet Din. Dating: ca. 1025 (unclear on what basis; Gil says ca. 1020, …

    1. [ ] לכל מודה
    2. [ ] ואשרי
    3. כל שומע [ ] חכמ[ ] מעוזנו יעזריהו צורם ינצריהו
    4. נוצר חסדו בג[מר] טוב להתייסד בנוצל מא[ ] שדי שא שלום
    5. גדול יקירי ואורי ונכבדי כ…

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  43. 93LetterENA 4020.30

    Letter by the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) to his brother in law, with a long narrative about the difficulties he encountered procuring …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. רקעתי אלי מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם חראסתה ונעמאה
    3. וכבת באלדל חסדתה ואעדאה מן תופיקה אלחסן לא אכלאה וכאן לה
    4. וליא וחאפטא פ…

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    1. In your name, merciful one.
    2. I am writing to you — my lord, the lofty elder, may God perpetuate your existence and make your protection and ben…

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  44. 94LetterENA NS 22.1

    Business letter from Avraham b. Farrāh, in Alexandria, to Yaʿaqov b. Avraham (and his sons Abū l-Ḥusayn Yūsuf and Abū Saʿīd Ibrāhīm), in Fustat. The …

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    1.                 בסם אללה אלעטים
    2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם עזה ועלאה וכבת אעדאה מן אל
    3. אסכנדריה ליב' כלון מן רביע אלאול ואלחא…

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    1. (2−1) בשם אלוהים הנורא; אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת רוממותך וישמיד את אויביך,
    2. מאלכסנדריה, בי"ב …

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  45. 95List or tableENA NS 50.33

    Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as Muwaffaq and Ḥasan the ghulām, goods such as honey, and expenses including "the government duty in Giza" …

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  46. 96LetterENA NS 58.7

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Full of glimpses of interesting subjects. The writer complains about the heavy rain this winter; he mentions the customs tax (maks); the …

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  47. 97LetterENA NS 68.9

    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).

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  48. 98LetterENA NS 71.23

    Letter, probably a correspondence between two officials, in Arabic script, with the "inhāʾ" formula and tarjama. The sender reports (yunhī) on a man who owes …

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  49. 99List or tableF 1908.44M

    List of several dozen donors to the public appeal (pesiqa) for the kharāj (here probably meaning capitation tax). Last line contains a reference to Abū …

    Outstanding Pledges for the Poll Tax [of the Poor]—Paid.

  50. The Elder Abu ’l-Khayr of the Street of the Burnishers 1 dinar
  51. The Elder Abū Surūr Faraḥ    …
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  53. 100LetterHalper 466

    Pledges for ransom of captives. A pledge-drive (pesiqa) for the man from Antioch for the ransom of his children. In four columns divided further into …

    recto, right-hand side

    1. בשמ`] רח` פדיון שבוים
    2. ....]בש פסיקה אלאנטאכי לאולאדה

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    1. ...] ב` סלאמה א` בן סלימאן ב`
    2. ...].ם ב` בן אלביאן ו` בן אלחזן ר`…

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