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  1. 1151Legal 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 …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. كانت الوالدة المباركة ليلة الخميس

    3. لنصف من شهر رمضان سنة 

    4. اربع وثمان واربع مائة

    5. الله يعرفنا بركتها

    6. [و]يجعل العا[قبة…

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  2. 1152State 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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  3. 1153LetterT-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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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتب عبد سيدنا الناصر للدين عماد المسلمين
    3. للاجل الاوحدالمكين سيد الوزراء وتاج الاصفيا
    4. قاضي القضاة وداعي الد…

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  4. 1154State 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 …

    1. ]الى النجابة وعلى ىىد[
    2. ]الجواهر في الافلاك [     ] في مواكبه ترتيب النجوم في الافلاك

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  5. 1155State 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 …

    1. شعبان بن عبد الله        ابو بكر الكرمي 

    2. محمد بن محمد التركماني

    3. بسم الله الـ[ـرحمن الرحيم]

    4. صلوات الله وبركاته ونو[امي زكواته وافضل سلامته وتح…

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  6. 1156State documentT-S AS 115.41

    Bottom of a petition. In Arabic script. Addressed to a caliph. Needs examination. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  7. 1157State documentT-S AS 177.123

    Recto and verso are two distinct petitions, in different hands. Unclear if/how they are related. Recto: Petition for charity apparently from someone under arrest (muʿtaqal), …

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    1. يقبل الارض        وينهـ[ـي

    2. عناية وعد من مملوكه فلوجه الله

    3. كلامه واذا حضر بين يديه وطلب من عـ[

    4. واذا كان المملوك معتقل وسير[

    5. برا ووقع و…

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    1. Kisses the ground and repo[rts
    2. charity that was promised to the slave. I swear upon God
    3. his words. When he arrived in his presence and sought …

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  8. 1158LetterAIU XII.116

    Fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script. Relatively large (the bottom 22 lines are preserved + 4 lines in the margin + remnants of …

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  9. 1159LetterAIU 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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  10. 1160State 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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  11. 1161Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 308

    Receipt, of ground tax (ḥikr) for a flour mill owned by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sammāk in the Jewish neighborhood of Fusṭāṭ. The payee is ʿĀbid(?) Ḥamza(?) …

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    1. وصلـــــــــــــــــــ
    2. من عابد(؟) حمزة(؟) حكر الطاحونة 
    3. بحارة اليهود تعلق وافق
    4. عبد القادر السماك
    5. وذالك عن ١٢٦٧ سنة
    6. ٢٧
    7. فقط لسبعة وعشرين قرش
    8. وا…

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  12. 1162List or tableT-S Ar.35.8

    Accounts or fiscal register, in Arabic script. Mentions 'al-madīna al-sharīfa' at least once. The heading on the verso mentions al-waqf in line 5.

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  13. 1163Credit 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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  14. 1164LetterENA 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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  15. 1165State 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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  16. 1166State 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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    1. عليـ]ـهم ما شمل كله المعظم (؟) في هذه الايام

    2. الزاهرة القاهرة عدلا واحسانا ورهبة ور حمة

    3. ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه رايها العالي في ذلك

    4. ان …

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  17. 1167State 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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  18. 1168State documentT-S Ar.42.195 + T-S Ar.38.128

    Petition to a Fatimid dignitary concerning (or from?) a certain Abū l-Faraj apparently regarding various properties in a neighborhood (and perhaps their commandeering?). Subsidiary to …

    1. [. . .]

    2. ابو الفرج الكرخي المبتاع لهذه الدار وقال[

    3. الا باطلاق من مولاي الشيخ //الجليل// لا على الحـ[

    4. اعتابا(؟) له بسبب حق واجب       وعند مولا…

    1. []
    2. Abū l-Faraj al-Karkhī, the seller of this house, and said [
    3. except with the permission from our master the elder //the illustrious// not by [
    4. moc…

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  19. 1169LetterJRL 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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  20. 1170State documentT-S AS 176.218

    State document, in Arabic script. Petition to a caliph, in a sloppy hand. Lower left corner. Some of the details of the case may be …

    1. ] من الشجرة بمصر عنده غارمين(؟) بهم وو[

    2. ثـ]ـلاث دينار واودعوا ذلك عنـ[ـد 

    3. ]العبد كشف ما ذكره من حاله والصد[قـ]ـة عليه

    4. ] لنحيي بذلك ولمولانا ص…

    1. ] from a disagreement(?) in Fusṭāt….debtors(?)
    2. ] 3 dinars, and promised that towards
    3. ] the slave, unveiling of that he narrated about his state and …

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  21. 1171Legal 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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  22. 1172Credit 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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  23. 1173Credit 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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  24. 1174Credit 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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  25. 1175Credit 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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  26. 1176Credit 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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  27. 1177Credit 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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  28. 1178Legal 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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  29. 1179State 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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  30. 1180Legal 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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  31. 1181Paraliterary textAIU XII.145

    A recipe or prescription in Arabic. Needs further examination.

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  32. 1182State 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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  33. 1183State 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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  34. 1184State 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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  35. 1185Legal 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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  36. 1186State 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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  37. 1187State documentT-S NS 100.63

    Official correspondence. 7 lines are preserved. Catalogued as a decree concerning tax payment, but needs further examination. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic commentary with exegetical queries …

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  38. 1188Literary textMoss. IXa,2.30

    Thousand and One Nights, from the chapter حكاية أنس الوجود مع محبوبته الورد في الأكما.

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  39. 1189State documentT-S NS 305.119

    Formal letter in Arabic script. Full of eloquent expressions of patronage. Unusual layout. Needs examination for content. Verso, is covered with writing in Arabic script …

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  40. 1190Paraliterary 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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  41. 1191State 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 …

    1. ] . . . امير المومنين وعلى آبائه الطاهرين
    2. ] يقبل الارض امام المجلس العادلي السيفي
    3. ] الناصري(؟) الكاملي الهادي عضد الله به الدين
    4. ] ادام (وخلد؟) قدر…

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  42. 1192State documentT-S NS 141.71

    Petition, probably. In Arabic script. ~4 lines preserved. Refers to al-dīwān al-Mustanṣirī. On verso there is piyyut. Likely related to the cluster T-S H11.90 + …

    1. ..هذين الديوانين وهو يجدد السوال

    2. …قام….من شي بما يجب فيها

    3. ]ـه الى الخدمة في ذلك ولولا ما يطمع به

    4. ….قدرته من [  ]يجب الديوان المستنصري

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  43. 1193Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 56

    Receipt in Arabic issued by a waqf overseer (ناظر وقف), probably for ground rent (ḥikr) on a property in Cairo. Dated Shawwal 1214 AH (1800 …

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  44. 1194State 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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  45. 1195State 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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  46. 1196State 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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  47. 1197Literary 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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  48. 1198State 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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  49. 1199Literary 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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  50. 1200LetterENA 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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