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1051
Literary textT-S Ar.40.47
Verso: Amorous poetry in Arabic script and accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning "white" and "red" commodities weighed in ounces, a kind of stone, mercury, and the …
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1052
LetterNLI 577.1/36
Letter fragment, in Arabic script. Possibly a letter of appeal or a divorce document narrating the writer's circumstances. He was married for 14 years until …
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1053
List or tableMoss. X,121.1
Private accounts, likely of a moneychanger. In Arabic script, but consisting mainly of sums in Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions monetary terms such as nuqra, ʿayn, wariq, …
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1054
State documentMoss. VIII,479.4
Verso: Probably a fragmentary state document, mentions al-Majlis and beginning of a date "bi-tārikh". Recto: Regarding selling of a slave girl. (AA)
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1055
State documentT-S Ar.35.354
Part of an Arabic document. Likely a petition. Probably used at one point for a book binding. Portions of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions the …
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1056
State documentNLI 4°8333.27
Decree fragment, probably Ghaznavid, containing the order clause and the beginning of the date clause; date cut off. From an 11th-century archive or Geniza of …
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1057
Literary textNLI 577.1/20
Quran. Bifolium from a codex. Containing part of Sūrat al-Maʿārij (70) and Sūrat al-Nūḥ (71).
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1058
Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 227
Beginning of a Muslim marriage contract. There may be a partial name in the second line after the basmala: [ʿAf]īf(?) al-ʿAṣṣār. (Information from Yusuf Umrethwala, …
- [بسم الله الرحمـ]ـن [الـ]ـرحيم
- [هذا ما اصدق فلان بـ]ـن [عفـ]ـيف؟ العصار [
- [عصمتـ]ـه وعقد نكاحه وتزوجها [به اصدقها نصف دينار عجل لها من ذلك]
- [دخـ]ـول…
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1059
Legal documentT-S Ar.39.417
Legal query in Arabic script. Dating: Late? A completely-preserved query with regard to a jointly owned house including a qāʿa and riwāq (شركة في دار …
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1060
State 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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1061
State documentT-S Ar.42.200
State document, in Arabic script. Petition, Mamlūk era.
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1062
Legal documentT-S Ar.42.170
Legal document, in Arabic script. Rental agreement for a small house (duwayra; diminutive of dār). The renter is Badr. b. ʿAlī al-Tinnisī(?) and the rentee …
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1063
State documentENA 2762.8
State accounts (makhzūma) in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Two names, Bū l-ʿAlā (..) and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, can be read in the third line. Written …
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1064
State documentT-S AS 113.34
Fragment from near the top of an official report or petition, mentioning the storehouses of the sugar refineries: ". . . ṣalawāt Allāh ʿalā mālikih …
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1065
Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 311
Literary text, in Arabic script. Quotes several statements from Hippocrates starting with "qāla Buqrāṭ" pertaining to pregnancy and child birth.
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1066
Legal documentT-S NS 134.126
Legal document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Mentions a qāḍī, a Christian, and possibly 16 dinars. Quite damaged. Reused for …
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1067
State documentT-S AS 184.198
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of a petition addressed to al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Majīḍ (1132–49). Apart from the opening formula and the blessings on the …
- [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
- [صلوات ا]لله وبركاته و[نوامي زكواته وافضل تحياته وسلامه
- [على سيدنا ومـ]ـولانا الامـ[ـام امير المؤمن…
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1068
Paraliterary textENA NS 83.53
Magical document with a humanoid figure and Greek alphabets.
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1069
LetterHalper 484
Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to [...] al-Ḥakīm, the physician of the amīr Jamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad. Dating: Likely ca. 13th century. The writer seems to …
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1070
List or tableENA NS 83.34
Ottoman-era accounts, might be Arabic but some words have Ottoman Turkish suffixes. Needs examination.
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1071
State documentENA 3714.5
State document, probably a fiscal order. Mentions rāhin/dāʾin in the first line, slaves (ghilmān), and property (ʿamāʾr). Some of the names mentioned are Abū Jawhar, …
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1072
Unknown typeENA 3926.10
Blank recto and verso, perforations for binding.
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1073
Paraliterary textENA 3910.4
Medical prescription. In Arabic script. With numerous ingredients and instructions. Some ingredients include tamarind (tamr hindī), seeds of chicory (bizr hindibāʾ), chebulic myrobalan (ʾihlīlaj kābulī), …
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1074
State documentENA 3957.1
Fiscal accounting document, probably. Large and well preserved. Needs examination. Alt description: Fragment, recto, and verso both contain what look like pen trials (some repetitions, …
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1075
Legal documentENA 3905.1
Legal document, 13 lines, in Arabic script. Dated: 9 Ramaḍān 883 AH, which is December 1478 CE (if read correctly). Mentions the Mālikī court (majlis …
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1076
State documentENA 3925.5
Recto: State document, huge line spacing, ends with ṣalwala in a calligraphic hand, probably a decree. On verso there is a letter (see separate record). …
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1077
Legal documentENA 3936.6
Jottings of accounts and calendrical notations in a mixture of Arabic script, Greek/Coptic numerals, and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century, based on handwriting. …
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1078
LetterENA 3926.2
Fragmentary letter (draft?) with many lacunae, 8 lines. Many glorifying phrases: "...[al-shaykh] al-ajall Sadīd al-Mulk ballaghū Allāh taʿālā aʿlā al-manāzil... dīn wa-dunyā... awdaʿahū Allāh taʿālā...." …
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1079
List or tableENA NS 83.30
Private accounts according to days (Monday and Friday) listing commodities with an assigned numerical value (quantity? price?). Some commodities include milk, almonds, chicken, meat, raisins, …
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1080
LetterENA 3944.19
Note in Arabic script addressed to [al-]shaykh ʿUmar at Raʾs al-Khalīj ("the head of the canal"; there is apparently a site just south of Fustat …
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1081
Legal documentENA 3961.8
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script, four and a half wide lines on paper with 3 final signatures, each in the shape of …
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1082
Legal documentENA 3960.8
ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., …
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1083
Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 13/1
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Contract for the sale of flax following the dissolution of the partnership.Tiqva ha-Levi known as Abū …
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1084
Legal documentENA 3960.6
ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., …
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1085
State documentDK 246.2
Petition or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Mentions the passing away of someone's mother and someone sending the brother of their servant Abū Muḥammad to …
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1086
State documentENA 3754.2
Mamluk or early Ottoman petition.
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1087
State documentT-S NS 324.117
Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. Four lines from near the top are preserved. Late Fatimid period.
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- المملوك يقبل الارض [امام المجلس العالي...]
- الجيوشي السيفي الناصري العادلي الصافي الهادي
- عضد الله به الدين وامتع بطول بقاه امير المؤمنين
- وادام …
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1088
Legal 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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1089
Legal 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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1090
Legal 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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1091
LetterENA NS 71.15
Letter from Faḍāʾil to his father. In Arabic script. He has sent prior letters but received no response. He mentions several individuals such as Ṣadaqa, …
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بسم الله ال]رحمن الرحيم
الذي اعرف به سيد]ي ووالدي جعلني الله فداه انني كتبت عدة كتب وما
وصلني لها ا]لجواب واشتغل ذلك قلبي كثير بحكم ما دخ…
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1092
State documentT-S AS 102.90
Petition to a Fatimid caliph, end only, with long lower margin enabling it to be reused as a biofolio transverse to the original text.
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عليـ]ـهم ما شمل كله المعظم (؟) في هذه الايام
الزاهرة القاهرة عدلا واحسانا ورهبة ور حمة
ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه رايها العالي في ذلك
ان …
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1093
State documentT-S Misc.29.13
Petition or report. In Arabic script. Probably sent from the village of Danūhiyya (modern spelling: دنوهيا) in the Sharqiyya district of the Nile Delta (the …
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1094
Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 188
Four sides of a medical text in a beautiful calligraphic hand with diacritical marks. Needs examination for identifying the work.
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1095
Paraliterary textMoss. VIII,236
Two medical prescriptions, one on each page. In Arabic script. Both are headed by "lemon syrup" (sharāb laymūn) or begin with this item. The one …
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1096
State documentMoss. IX,202.3
Petition to a state official. In Arabic. After a taqbīl, the addressee is greeted with many titles ("al-majlis al-ʿādilī al-sayfī al-nāṣirī(?) al-kāmilī al-hādī"). The petitioner …
- ] . . . امير المومنين وعلى آبائه الطاهرين
- ] يقبل الارض امام المجلس العادلي السيفي
- ] الناصري(؟) الكاملي الهادي عضد الله به الدين
- ] ادام (وخلد؟) قدر…
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1097
State documentT-S AS 177.187
Fragment of state document(s). There is one hand on recto, and two different hands (different documents) on verso. Recto mentions "hādhihi al-ruqʿa." Verso mentions a …
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1098
Literary textT-S Ar.42.155
Love poetry, in Arabic script. The name of the beloved is Buthayna and the lover is Jamīl. The poem is written in verse form on …
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1099
State documentT-S Misc.5.148 + T-S Ar.30.316 + T-S Ar.42.196 + HUC 1133
Writing exercise in a chancery hand, two different hands alternating. Encomium to an official. Alternatively, the original document may be a genuine document rather than …
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Credit 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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