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1001
Legal documentENA 3913.4
Legal document (iqrār). Acknowledgment made by al-muʿallim Yaʿqūb b. Ismāʿīl. In Arabic script. Needs examination for content and dating.
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1002
Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 446
Literary text, poetry, in Arabic script. Mentions forbearance during harsh times and seekers of knowledge. Needs examination.
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1003
State documentBL Or. 5557R.105
Fiscal register, dated 3 Dhū l-Ḥijja of an unmentioned year, mentions several sums of money (Compare AIU IV.C.453, T-S NS 243.75a, T-S NS 198.61, ENA …
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1004
State documentBL Or. 5563F.7 + BL Or. 5563F.8
Fiscal document, few lines of text, something to do with the release of funds. Probably dating to the Ayyubid period. Reused for Hebrew script. Needs …
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1005
State documentENA 3925.4
Account, fiscal record or tax receipt, Fatimid. Binding pinholes.
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1006
State documentENA 3969.2
Fragment of an official document, probably. (Tax receipt?) Little is preserved beyond the date: 12 Ramaḍān 634 AH = 9 May 1237 CE.
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1007
Legal documentAIU XII.147
Bottom right corner of a 14th C legal contract, probably a contract, dated 27th Muḥarram 723 AH.
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1008
LetterENA NS 71.19
Letter, in Arabic script. Starts with a basmala and contains the "inhāʾ" formula. Mentions difficulties; "ويشهد الله تعلى لقد صنعت علينا غاية الصعوبه والله تعالى …
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1009
State documentMoss. VIII,326.1
State document, likely a report, in Arabic script. Contains the taqbīl clause and the yunhī formula. The sender refers to his prior report (khidma) which …
]. دولة……..
المملوك يقبل الارض امام المجلس السامي اعز الله سلطانه وينهي انه
كان اصدر خدمته التي هي جواب الكتاب الكريم وكرار (؟) على….هذه الخدمة…
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1010
Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 63
Legal document, late, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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1011
Legal documentHalper 337
Court record in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. A litigant named Moshe has claimed that his loan of 50.5 dinars to Ṣadaqa was guaranteed …
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1012
Legal documentHalper 354
Draft of a deed of compensation in the hand of the court reporter Yefet b. David Shekhanya, around 1030. It was given to Efrayim b. …
- זכרון ע' ש' ב' אי העדים ה[חתומים למטה בסוף שטר זה
- איך אתא קדמנא מ[ר פלוני בן פלוני
- מן מדינת צובה וכן [אמר לנו פלוני
- והלל בני נחמן הרופה [עשאוני שליח…
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1013
LetterHalper 422
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Very deferential. Twice mentions "the late Mujāhid." It is cataloged in the Halper catalog as "part of a letter or …
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- والمحل المانوس........مكانه ثبت هذا
- الى يده و......ثا على قدره ومجددة لما سلف من ذكره
- ومعرفته عما له من الصحبة القديم عن المرحوم المجاهد
- قد...…
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1014
List or tableHalper 484
Business accounts in Arabic script.
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1015
Paraliterary textJRL Gaster ar. 214
Talisman, in Arabic script. A suggestive reading for the centre bold text in red could be "al-haykal al-sākinīn".
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1016
List or tableJRL Gaster ar. 290
Document in Arabic script, probably accounts. Dating: Probably late. Needs examination.
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1017
Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 564
Legal document, probably, in Arabic and Hebrew script. Mentions "fī manʿ shahāda". Needs examination.
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1018
List or tableENA NS 83.31
Ottoman-era accounts.
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1019
Legal documentT-S 13J37.12
Legal document: bill of sale for a slave. See also Perry's annotated edition of T-S18J1.17.
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1020
LetterT-S NS 226.6
Letter recording commodity transactions, including the purchase of wheat. Mentions a food shortage and rise in prices "and we are in a massive crisis because …
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- קריב מאתין דרהם דין אכתרהא
- לאצהארה ואלבאקי לנאס מפרקה
- ואופינא אלבעץ ואלבאקי חתי תגי
- ונפיע אלמ. . ונחן פי שדה עצימה
- מן אלגלא גרארה אלקמח בסבעי…
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1021
State documentAIU II.B.312
A fragmentary line of a widely spaced Arabic text (probably a decree) visible in the left margin; the document was recycled to copy a biblical …
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1022
State documentENA 3944.11
Tax receipt for Abū l-Surūr. Trigger: addā.
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1023
Legal documentAIU XII.144
Bottom left corner fragment of a legal contract, late. Deed of sale. Three signatures in the form of cartouches at the bottom. Second fragment of …
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1024
Paraliterary textAIU XII.145
A recipe or prescription in Arabic. Needs further examination.
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1025
State documentBL Or. 5557K.25
State document, possibly a decree fragment, two lines, with wide spacing. The second line reads as "was kutiba li-sitt khalawn min Shawwāl ʿaẓẓama-llāhu". Reused widely …
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1026
State documentT-S NS 225.24
Recto: Letter or petition, fragment. In Arabic script. It seems to be addressed to the director of the bureau of mosques (mutawallī dīwān al-jawāmiʿ wa-l-masājid), …
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1027
State documentT-S Ar.39.1
Official receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Dated: 556 AH (or kharājī?); if AH, this would correspond to 1160/61 CE. For Bū l-Ḥasan b. …
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1028
Legal documentMoss. VIII,268
Muslim marriage contract. Fragment (upper right corner). Groom: Yazdād b. Balūl(?). Needs further examination. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
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1029
State documentAIU XII.5
Fragment of a letter in Arabic, likely an official report or petition. The sender reports that he went up to the citadel (يقبل الارض وينهي …
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1030
State documentT-S Ar.42.88
Tax receipt. Mentions the mustakhdim al-jawālī in Damietta. Dated: 601 AH. Amount: 1.25 dinars. ʿAlāma: الحمد لله وبه استعين. Endorsed across the text rather than …
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1031
State documentT-S NS 150.254
Report (official state correspondence). 6 lines from the middle section are preserved. Refers to audiences with the caliph, the amīr Wajīh al-Dawla, and someone traveling …
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اليوم كان عند امير المومنين صلى الله عليه عاد بن هرون
الى عند امير المومنين صلى الله عليه الامير وجيه الدولة يعلمه
انه ساير عن الرملة الى…
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1032
State documentT-S Misc.29.9 + T-S Misc.29.2
Decree or petition. Portions of two lines are preserved, mentioning Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad b. [...], and a version of a raʾy clause: ...bi-khayri mā yarāhu …
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1033
Legal documentENA 3963.1
Legal document in Arabic script, central portion of either a contract or a deed of sale. Dating: Likely Mamluk or Ottoman era. The name of …
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1034
State documentENA 2808.68
Righthand fragment, recto (original use): Petition, probably. In Arabic script, with gigantic space between the lines. Portions of the last few lines are preserved. Mentions …
Righthand document (recto)
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- ـ]عه واشهد على ثقة (alt=بقية) فيها
- [ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه الراي الـ]ـعالي في ذلك ان شا الله
- [الحمد لله]وحده وصل…
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1035
State documentENA 3941.2
Letter or petition from a certain Bū Naṣr (to a woman?). In Arabic script. Begins: عبدها يقبل يديها وينهي انه شهد الله على غاية من …
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1036
LetterT-S Ar.35.33
Letter addressed to Abū l-Riḍā b. Hilāl, the secretary (kātib) in "the compound of al-Ḥāfiẓ" (al-rabʿ al-Ḥāfiẓī al-saʿīd) at Bāb Zuwayla in New Cairo. The …
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1037
State documentT-S Ar.39.418
State document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary but from what is preserved, it is indicative that the petition is addressed to a caliph due to the …
قيوله ويتلو خدمته مـ[
من الرقعة والتوقيع والجواب على[
في ارجـ[..؟] الثمن عنه على العادة كونه لم يبلغ
الحكم فسبوني عليه وطالع بذلك
امتثالا ل…
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State documentT-S AS 181.2
Fragment of a petition. Hard to piece together the story but contains various interesting references such as to the judges (al-quḍāt) and to عبد يشوع …
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1039
State documentT-S Ar.42.186
A register copy containing accounts of three arrests. The first detainee is Faẓāʾil (Naẓāʾir?) b. Ismaʿīl who was arrested by Sayyid al-Ahl, Riḍwān, and al-Muẓaffar …
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1040
State documentT-S Ar.51.107
State document, Fatimid period. Petition to a vizier of Al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh from a baker in Fusṭāṭ concerning a debt that he had incurred with …
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- المملوك
- أبو عبد الله بن يحيى الفران بمصر
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وأفضل تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا
- الإم…
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The slave
Abū ʿAbdallāh, the baker from Fusṭāṭ.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The benedictions of God and his ble…
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1041
State documentSt. Catherine, Atiya no. 962
The decree of ʿAbd al-Majīd (al-Ḥāfiẓ) and his wazīr al-Afḍal Kutayfāt to the monks of Mt. Sinai.
كافل قضاة المسلمين وهادى دعاة المؤمنين ابو علي احمد بن السيّد
الأجلّ الأفضل امير الجيوش عضد الله به الدين وامتع بطول بقائه ولي
عهد المسلمين وا…
[The order to issue the present decree was given by Abū l-Maymūn ʿAbd al-Majīd, son of the amir Abū l-Qāsim, Owner of the Homage of the Muslims (walī…
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1042
LetterNLI 577.8/14
Letter from a certain Yūnus, en route from Damascus to Cairo, to the amīr Sinbāy, in Cairo (Ṣalība street). In Arabic script. Dating: Mamluk-era. The …
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سم الله الرحمن الرحيم
سلام الله تعالى ورحمته وبركاته وازكى تحياته على خدمة الامير سنباى
سلم الله تعالى والسلام على خدمة سيدي برهان وعلى ا…
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1043
Literary textT-S Ar. 42.47
Poetry. Extract from Abu l-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Sulaymān al-Maʿarrī’s (d. 449/1058) al-Luzūmiyyāt.
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1044
LetterT-S Ar.40.189
Family letter. In Arabic script. To 'my father.' Asking for clothing for the children and maintenance expenses, and telling the addressee to return. Dating: Probably …
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1045
Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 28
Receipt for Mufaḍḍal b. Barakāt of 1 dīnār and 2/3 dirhams for qand/sugar.
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1046
Legal documentDK 313
Testimony in Arabic script. Fragment (top cut off). Dated: first third of Jumādā I 528 AH = February/March 1134 CE. The bottom is divided into …
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1047
Legal documentT-S Ar.42.149
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār), complete. In Arabic script. Dated: 525 AH = 1130/31 CE. The muqirr is Sayyid al-Ahl b. ʿAlī. The contract was drafted …
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1048
State documentT-S AS 149.91
Probably a petition in Arabic script. The addressee is a dignitary (referred to with the honorific 'khāliṣat amīr al-muʾminīn'). The petition has something to do …
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1049
LetterT-S Ar.42.13
Letter/petition in Arabic script. The tarjama containing the name of the sender at upper left seems to have been deliberately torn away; the remainder of …
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يخدم مجلس المولى السيد الاجل الحكيم الفاضل ادام الله ايامه
وينهي لكريم عالم(؟) ان المانع له عن الحضور بخدمة المولا الان
ما يعلمه المولا م…
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1050
State documentCUL Or.1080 J85
Fiscal document (account? in table form) with very wide line spacing, in a chancery/fiscal hand. Appears to list at least 12 towns in the upper …
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