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1101
Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.35.325
Commercial receipt. Dated: 27 Muḥarram 498 H. For Abū l-Faḍl Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī al-Dimashqī. The commodity is mentioned is lac and the quantity is 300 …
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1102
Credit 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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1103
Credit 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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1104
Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 68
Receipt of payment, in the name of Dāʾūd al-Yahūdī al-Quḍāʿī for renting two floors in a caravanserai (wikāla). Dated: Shaʿbān 1163 AH = July/August 1750 …
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1105
LetterJRL Gaster ar. 134
Letter, probably, or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Mentions the ground tax "al-ḥikr" and "siwā l-mablagh al-taṣarruf". Needs examination. [Or rather likely a legal document …
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1106
State documentT-S Ar.41.34
State document, probably a report to a higher official (not a petition). This is a long strip cut from the right side of the document. …
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1107
LetterT-S 13J28.21
Letter in Arabic script. May be addressed to a jurisconsult regarding a legal opinion, ending "wa-huwa wa-raʾyuhū abṣar." The sender and addressee are Jewish, based …
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1108
Legal documentT-S Ar.38.132
Document of sale of a house (intaqala...), dated 28 Muḥarram 587 AH, which is 25 February 1191 CE. (Though note that Khan at one time …
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1109
State 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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واعلم هذا واعمل بـ[ـه وليقرّ بأيديهم بعد ثبوته في ... بحيث يثبت مثله ان شاء الله تعالى]
كتب في يوم عيد النحر السعيد [سنة …. ]
[الحمد لله …
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1110
State documentT-S K25.32
Petition or report concerning a government official (Mutawallī al-Sayyāra) named Samyūn (سميون), likely a Christian.The document was cut into two or more pieces and rearranged …
]بابن عتيق الفكاة انه اتا في اليل الى دار
سميون العبد متولي السيارة وهو على حاله وسميون غائب فشتمه
وشتم غيره لمن ذكر[]لقدر صاحب عنده انه ذكر[
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1111
Legal documentENA 3902.5
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) with many lacunae. Concerns default in debt payment; involves [...] b. Abū Ṭāʿa(?) al-Ḥāmī and Manṣūr b. Faraḥ al-Ḥāmī in Cairo. …
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1112
LetterENA NS 18.31
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn to Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 518 and from Goitein's index cards). The writer mentions several …
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- כתאבי יא שיכי וסידי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך
- וסעאדתך ואצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה יום אלכמיס
- ליב בקין מן מרחשון ען חאל כמא קד שאה אללה תבא[רך
- ו…
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1113
Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 48
Late Arabic legal document. Needs examination.
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1114
Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 61
Legal document, late, in Arabic script. Probably a record of payment to the bureau of silk looms "dīwān anwāl l-ḥarīr". Needs examination.
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1115
State documentT-S NS 110.14 + T-S K6.33 + T-S NS 277.168
State/fiscal document, one of several state documents recycled by ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen, active in Jerusalem, d. ca. 1055, social services officer (parnas) of the …
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1116
State documentT-S 10J19.17
State document, in Arabic script. Decree.
المملوك مقدم الجيوش
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1117
State documentT-S 16.102
Petition from an Alexandrian coppersmith. Dating: Fatimid-era based on structure and paleography but could be Ayyubid. The titles of the addressee match that of an …
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1118
Legal documentHalper 472
Legal document in Arabic script. The last four lines are preserved as well as the witness statements. Needs examination. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ I 548 AH …
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1119
State documentT-S AS 117.319
Petition, or official-looking letter. In Arabic script. Fragments of four lines are preserved. Mentions "the place... the slave has been there for several years... the …
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- بان هذه الموضع ايامـ[
- مضى للعبد وله فيه عدة سنين وكان فيه متفـ[
- ]...الطريق ممن زال فيهم يد..[
- ]....المذكور...
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1120
State documentT-S Ar.34.328
Decree of investiture(?); two lines widely spaced. Contains rhymed prose in praise of someone: "the stars in the sky.......in their rotation like the order of …
- ]الى النجابة وعلى ىىد[
- ]الجواهر في الافلاك [ ] في مواكبه ترتيب النجوم في الافلاك
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1121
State documentT-S Ar.35.126
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition or other formal state correspondence. The beginnings of 8 lines are preserved, mostly consisting of honorifics for the …
شعبان بن عبد الله ابو بكر الكرمي
محمد بن محمد التركماني
بسم الله الـ[ـرحمن الرحيم]
صلوات الله وبركاته ونو[امي زكواته وافضل سلامته وتح…
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1122
Legal documentT-S Ar.38.10
Possibly a record of a birth. In Arabic script. "In the name of God the most gracious, the most merciful: the blessed ________ was on …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كانت الوالدة المباركة ليلة الخميس
لنصف من شهر رمضان سنة
اربع وثمان واربع مائة
الله يعرفنا بركتها
[و]يجعل العا[قبة…
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1123
State documentT-S AS 153.213
Recto: State document. One line from a petition in Arabic script addressed to an amīr. (Information from CUDL)
- ذلك على ماثوره وسيدي الامير ادام الله تاييده
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1124
LetterT-S 16.150
Verso: Drafts of at least half a dozen letters and other texts in Arabic script. One letter (written between the lines of another one) is …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- كتب عبد سيدنا الناصر للدين عماد المسلمين
- للاجل الاوحدالمكين سيد الوزراء وتاج الاصفيا
- قاضي القضاة وداعي الد…
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1125
State 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 …
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1126
State documentMoss. VII,163.1
Draft of a beginning of a report to an official, possibly a vizier, from a lower official. Beginning formula and opening honorifics are preserved. Addressed …
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- مملوك الحضرة السامية الاجلية الشيخية الديوانية ثبت الله ايام عزها واعلا شانها وذكا(؟) قدرتها
- واهلك عدوها وضدها ينهي ا…
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- In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
- The slave of the lofty, most exalted, lordly, official Presence, may God firmly establish…
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1127
Literary 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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1128
LetterBL 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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1129
State documentT-S NS 207.57
Letter or report. In Arabic script. Mentions a man from Tiberias by the name of Baysān, wicked people (fa-kathura fasāduhum), people who mentioned that they …
………………………………………..ام………….
ىعـ[]...الله تعالى واستناد الله……….
الـ]ـدعا الصالح و[الـ]ـصلوة والطلبه قبل….بما ارجو من الله
غير خاف عن حضرته كيف ح…
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1130
State documentMoss. III,207
Verso: State document, Fatimid, in Arabic script. Mentions the death of one of the policemen of the vizier's ship (al-mutawaffī min al-raqqāṣīn al-mustakhdama bi-rasm markab …
عبده
امتثل ما امر به ووجد المتوفي من الرقاصين
المستخدمة برسم مركب الوزارة المحروس
واحد قصر مشاهرته على هذه الخدمة ما وجب
لذي الحجة سنة ارب…
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1131
Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3966.3
Rent receipt (? اجرته end of line 1) for al-shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī for a dār in the al-Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fusṭāṭ. Dated: …
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1132
LetterENA NS 17.32 + ENA NS 16.24
Verso: Letter fragment from Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ḥasanī(?) addressed to a certain Amir. Only the first few lines are preserved.
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1133
State documentENA 3695.6 + T-S Ar.38.120
Fiscal accounting. Dated (on T-S Ar.38.120): 436 kharājī = 1044/45 CE plus or minus a couple years. There are three or four distinct documents present: …
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1134
Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3967.9
One side: Receipt for rent. Bū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf paid Maḥfūẓ 6 dirhams. The other side: Fragmentary note mentioning sugarcane and silk (yaḥtāj ilā firqat?... fī …
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1135
Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 67
Legal document in Arabic script, with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note on verso. The name of the notary is al-Ḥāj ʿUmar Agha who was the overseer …
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1136
LetterENA 3926.5
Part of a letter in Arabic script, probably regarding a commercial account. Mentions "al-dīwān". Needs examination. Reused for a tax receipt (PGPID 10292).
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1137
State 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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1138
Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 6
Arabic literary text, in a beautiful and elegant Maghribī script. Probably regarding theology or isagoge. Needs examination.
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1139
List 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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1140
LetterBodl. 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 …
- . . . . . [اطال الله بقاك وادام عزك]
- وسلامتك ونعمتك وعن شوق اليك شديد
- اسل الله قرب الاجتماع على اسر حال بمنه وكرمه
- انه ولي ذلك والقادر عليه ان شا ال…
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1141
State 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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1142
State documentJRL Gaster ar. 202
Original text: State/fiscal document. The years 534 and 535 AH are specified in multiple places, paired with sums of money at the top. Refers to …
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1143
List or tableJRL Gaster ar. 334
Accounts, late in Arabic script. Long list of commodities and prices, mostly foodstuff like almonds, plums, and apples. Needs examination.
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1144
Paraliterary textENA 3982.14
A leaf of the astronomical tables devised for the years 900-1500 CE. Only two dates come into question for the year 631/1234 (Ayyubid period). Date …
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1145
Legal documentT-S AS 177.218
Legal document involving several amīrs, including ʿIzz al-Mulk Bahāʾ al-Dawla wa-Sadīduhā Dhū al-[...]. Also concerning Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī, the ʿArīf ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammmad, and another …
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1146
State documentENA NS 83.352
Petition to a state official. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). All that is preserved is some of the titles of the addressee. "al-majlis …
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1147
Legal 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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1148
Credit instrument or private receiptNLI 577.1/67
Receipt or proof of purchase. Contains the glyph meaning "addā" here.
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1149
State documentT-S AS 178.75
State document, in Arabic script. Most of the original page is preserved, but the text is damaged and faded. Petition addressed to a Fatimid caliph …
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1150
Legal 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 …
و حفظ سائبة ولا زالت
وموافقة ولا مواقفة
من الادعية الصالحة له والشا……
الفاضل الاجل الاسعد
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