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  1. 1001List or tableUU 1629

    Ottoman-era list, probably in Ottoman siyaket.

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  2. 1002List or tableUU 1630

    Account in Arabic script. Probably Mamluk period. Mentions "al-muḥḍar", and "al-ḥiṣṣa".

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  3. 1003List or tableUU 1631

    Accounts, in Arabic and Coptic numerals.

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  4. 1004List or tableUU 1814

    Dense daily expenses with the names of people in Arabic. Coptic and Siyāqet numerals. Needs examination.

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  5. 1005State 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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  6. 1006State documentAIU IV.C.259

    Decree. Only part of one line is preserved, mentioning the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ, "...wa-waliyyihi ʿAbd al-Majīd Abī l-Maymūn al-Imām..."

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  7. 1007State documentAIU IV.C.302

    Decree, probably a public copy with gigantic line spacing. Mentions the signature/ʿalāma (khaṭṭ, khuṭūṭ) of two just witnesses (al-shuhūd al-ʿadlayn) and overseers (al-mushārifīn). Also mentions …

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  8. 1008State documentAIU IX.A.3

    Likely a decree to a lower official, to judge by the sloppy hand. The section toward the end contains inshallāh, then kutiba, with the date …

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  9. 1009State documentAIU VII.D.103

    State document, fragment, in Arabic script written in enormous letters, probably a decree. Mentions "fourteen heads" (li-arbaʿa ʿashara raʾs) (of cattle?). Reused for several different …

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  10. 1010State documentAIU VII.E.117

    Decree (?) to a lower official or letter to a dignitary, 5 fragmentary lines from the mid-section. Arabic script, wide line spacing, chancery hand. Very …

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  11. 1011State 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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  12. 1012State documentAIU XII.29

    State document, probably a decree, last three lines, written on the joyous occasion of ʿĪd al-Naḥr. Preserved lines read as "فاعلم هذا واعمل..وكتب في يوم …

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    1. واعلم هذا واعمل بـ[ـه وليقرّ بأيديهم بعد ثبوته في ... بحيث يثبت مثله ان شاء الله تعالى]

    2. كتب في يوم عيد النحر السعيد [سنة …. ]

    3. [الحمد لله …

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  13. 1013Credit instrument or private receiptAIU XII.31

    Receipt for the price of sugar collected from a certain ʿAbdūn by the messenger Aḥmad al-Ḥawlī. The document is dated Tuesday, 13th RabīʿII 859 H. …

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  14. 1014State documentAIU XII.69

    Possibly an official document in Arabic script, but the hand is crude. Could also be an IOU with a layout reminiscent of state documents. Concerns …

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  15. 1015Credit instrument or private receiptAIU XII.77

    Receipt of payment for the rent of three stores (ḥawānīt) from a man called Khiḍr Zaytūn in ḥarat al-yahūd, near the waqf of Muḥammad al-Raḥlāwī …

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  16. 1016LetterAIU XII.80

    Mercantile letter, complete, in Arabic script from Bundar b. Eliya al-ʿAṭṭār to Abū ʿAlī Ismaʿīl b Ḥananya al-Baṣrī (in Fusṭāṭ). Sent with ʿAlī b. Ṭalḥa …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. وصل كتابك يا سيدي ومولاي وكبيري اطال الله بقاك وادلم عزك وتائيدك وسعادتك ونعمتك وعدتك

    3. لاربع عشر ليلة خلت من ربيع ا…

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  17. 1017Legal documentAIU XII.90

    Legal document in Arabic script. Only the witness signatures are preserved, e.g., ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh and Bū Bakr [...] b. ʿAbdallāh. Verso: love poetry also …

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  18. 1018Legal 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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  19. 1019Paraliterary textAIU XII.145

    A recipe or prescription in Arabic. Needs further examination.

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  20. 1020State documentAIU XII.145

    Chancery decree in large Arabic script. Only the left half of a single line has been preserved. Yusuf Umrethwala's suggested reading: السجل لك باستخدامك في …

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  21. 1021Legal documentAIU XII.147

    Bottom right corner of a 14th C legal contract, probably a contract, dated 27th Muḥarram 723 AH.

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  22. 1022Legal documentAIU XII.149

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) by a certain Futūḥ b. Aḥmad. Mentions the judge in whose presence the iqrār took place, another person by the name …

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  23. 1023Legal documentBL OR 5547.1

    Legal document, deed of acknowledgment, concerning an inheritance dispute between Jamīla bt. Lāḥiq the veterinarian and her brother. Contains three testimonies at the bottom. The …

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  24. 1024State documentBL OR 5561A.2

    State document. Dating: Refers to payments for the year 415 kharājī; 415 AH is 1024/25 CE, so 415 kharājī is 1024/25 CE plus or minus …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [

    2. شرط النوااب بالـ[. .]ـل مالهما لامير الامرا تاج الدولة وسيف

    3. الملة المويد ذي الـ[ـمعالـ]ـي …

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  25. 1025List or tableBL OR 5566B.11

    Verso: Four (?) interesting accounts in Arabic script, one mentioning "wāṣil al-ḍamān". Dated: Jumādā II 513 AH, which is September 1119 CE. (Information from Goitein's …

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  26. 1026LetterBL OR 5566B.16

    On recto, the bottom of a letter (official letter? formulary?) in Arabic script. The writer thanks the addressee in the concluding lines quoting two verses …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اما لك يا ذا المحب دوآ بلا عند بعض الناس منك شفاء
    3. اسير العدا بالمال يفديه اهله وما لاسير الغانيات فداء

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    1. اشعار..…

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  27. 1027State documentBL OR 5566B.25

    Recto: State report. 4 lines preserved. Mentions "Bū Kalījār the king of Ahwāz," probably identical with the Buyid Amir Abū Kālījār Marzubān in Persia (d. …

    1. وزير ورد من عند بو كليجار ملك الاهواز

    2. وانه وصل الى واسط وخرج اليه ثلثة نفر

    3. من وجوه الا[تراك؟] وانه ساقهم ما لا 

    4. يرضيهم فقابلوه بالمكروه واراد…

    1. … a Wazīr who arrived from Bū Kalījār, the king of Ahwāz.

    2. He reached Wāsiṭ and three men went out to him

    3. from the notables of (the Turks?), but…

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  28. 1028State 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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  29. 1029State 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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  30. 1030State 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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  31. 1031Literary textBL Or. 5565G.32 + BL Or. 5565G.33 + BL Or. 5565G.34

    Literary text, compilation of poetry (dīwān). A portion from the long didactic poem (originally of around 90 verses) stretching through five pages from the dīwān …

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  32. 1032Legal documentBL Or. 12369.46

    Legal document, Mamlūk era, deed of sale, in a very faint and worn-off Arabic script. The document is dated to the last ten days (ʿushr …

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  33. 1033Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 13/1

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Contract for the sale of flax following the dissolution of the partnership. Tiqva …

    1. [...] .. [
    2. אלכתאן אלדי [
    3. כגק מרור [
    4. ואבעתה איצא גמיע אלחצירה אלמש[אקה 
    5. חמדת הישיבה ראש הנדיבים נט ר[...............]ין גמי[................]
    6. וקיימין…

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  34. 1034LetterBodl. MS Heb. c 56/3

    Letter in Arabic from a father to a son that consists almost entirely of greetings and well-wishes. The family rejoiced to receive his letters from …

    1. . . . . . [اطال الله بقاك وادام عزك]
    2. وسلامتك ونعمتك وعن شوق اليك شديد
    3. اسل الله قرب الاجتماع على اسر حال بمنه وكرمه
    4. انه ولي ذلك والقادر عليه ان شا ال…

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  35. 1035State 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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  36. 1036State documentDK 246.2

    Petition or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Mentions the death of someone's mother and sending the brother of their servant Abū Muḥammad to take care …

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  37. 1037Legal 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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  38. 1038Legal documentDK 314

    Legal document, in Arabic script. The two Christians Barzūq b. Mufriḥ and Zurayn b. Makhlūf jointly lease (=shares) a vegetable garden (arḍ al-baqla) on the …

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    In the name of God, the All-merciful. And may God pray for our lord Muhammad, his prophet, and his family, and greet them with peace. 

    Marzūq b…

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  39. 1039Credit instrument or private receiptDK 398

    Order of payment (or bill?) in Arabic script. Abū l-Khayr al-ʿAṭṭār is to pay 80 dirhams out of the price of the drugs/perfume. The scribe …

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  40. 1040State documentENA 684.5

    State document, Fatimid, probably a decree fragment, 4 lines. Begins with وعاد بنجابتهما وحسن in a dual tense suggesting that it was addressed to two …

    1. عاد بنجابتهما وحسن

    2. عاد بنجابتها وحسن

    3. وله منتصبين وفيه مجدين وليتحققا

    4. …… مسوولان عنها مطالبيـ[ن

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  41. 1041State documentENA 979.1

    Decree fragment: one line on verso. wa-ri'āyan li-kum[ ]. Cut, reused, and bound in a Hebrew script literary text: 15 lines plus notes on recto, …

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  42. 1042State documentENA 979.2

    Decree fragment: one line on recto. 'adal(a) followed by tooth+loop (fragmentary word). Cut, reused, and bound in a Hebrew script literary text: 12 lines on …

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  43. 1043State documentENA 2481.17 + ENA 2481.18

    Decree, fragment, reused for Hebrew piyyut/poetry. The preserved text reads 'and on his brother' - wa ʿalā akhīhi.

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  44. 1044State documentENA 2808.45

    Small fragment of a Fatimid decree containing a truncated closing formula and the beginning of the date (day of the week only — Thursday). Interesting …

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  45. 1045State documentENA 2846.6 + ENA 2846.7

    Verso: State document, two lines preserved and one partial line above. Due to water damage or perhaps long-term pressure and ink transfer, the document bears …

    1. فاما مقدار ما يحتاج | اليه من الصف(؟) المغربية(؟) فذكر المستخدم المذكور
    2. ان الذي قدره منه في | السنة من الجالية خمسين الف واربع مائة مثقالا

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  46. 1046State documentENA 2959.1

    Fragment of a petition, two wide lines. The first line reads 'wa-ʿabd mawlānā,' then '[...] al-shāmil.'

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  47. 1047State documentENA 2969.7

    Nine lines in two different hands; one hand seems to be a chancery hand and the other one is not as elegant. The document starts …

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  48. 1048State documentENA 2972.5

    Report probably on military matters. In Arabic script. 6 lines preserved. Mentions a wall (al-ṣūr), the dispatching of a warship (ʿushārī), someone named Ibn al-Qaṣʿ(?), …

    1. ]ـول ان موالي (؟) ذلك (؟) الصور..

    2. كان جرد عشاري عمارة فيه صاحب له على …

    3. اصحابه ومن جملتهم بن القصع ووصلوا الى جبلة وخطر 

    4. بن القصع فيها وعاد ا…

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  49. 1049State documentENA 3315.20

    Recto: Fragment of an official state correspondence, in Arabic script. Has wide line-spacing, diacritical dots, and diacritical marks, with iḥmāl markings. Mentions a sijill and …

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    1. ذكر وروى به معه........[
    2. ابن الموفق في الدين يذكر له انه بلغه ان معه سجلا الى  [
    3. يساله [ ]  اليه ليـ[ ]ره الى ابيه فكتب اليه يساله الاجتماع
    4. ب…

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  50. 1050Legal documentENA 3492.15

    Fragment of a legal document. The terms sāiʾba (endowment/waqf property more generally ) and mūwāqafa (safeguarding waqf/endowment properties) are suggestive that the document could be …

    1. و حفظ سائبة ولا زالت

    2. وموافقة ولا مواقفة

    3. من الادعية الصالحة له والشا……

    4. الفاضل الاجل الاسعد

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