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  1. 1251State 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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  2. 1252State 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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  3. 1253State documentENA 3935.17

    Recto: Fragment, 11 lines in a chancery(?) hand, difficult to read. Needs examination. Perforated binding. Verso: Mamlukī names in pretty naskhī script on verso. Including …

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  4. 1254Legal documentHalper 359

    Legal document from the Muslim (qāḍī) courts. In Arabic script, with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note. Dated: 945 AH, which is 1538 CE. Concerning the estate …

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  5. 1255Legal documentJRL SERIES A 784

    Legal document, in Arabic script. Emanating from the anwāl al-ḥarīr (bureau of silk looms) in Alexandria. Needs examination.

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  6. 1256State documentENA NS 83.127

    Tax receipt, Fatimid. Small fragment, not much text preserved.

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  7. 1257State documentENA NS 83.28

    Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb.

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  8. 1258State documentMoss. IXa,2.55

    Fiscal account. Contains at least two registration marks, one of which is الحمد لله وبه توفيقي. Also mentions Jews (al-Yahūd) and contains a ḥasbala. Dated …

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  9. 1259Paraliterary textDK 223.7

    Medical recipe, in Arabic script. Four folios of recipes, probably part of a medical text. Needs examination.

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  10. 1260State documentT-S AS 178.230

    Petition to a Fatimid caliph, in Arabic script. The ends of ~8 lines are preserved from the upper left corner, including much of the preamble …

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  11. 1261State documentT-S AS 177.116

    Fragment of an official-looking letter in Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. Likely a petition for help (كل سنة من احوالهم... حتى …

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  12. 1262LetterENA NS 71.6

    Mercantile letter, in Arabic script. From Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl to Abī ʿAbd Allāh b. Khodādād at the Dār al-Wakāla. The writer mentions sending several commodities …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. كتبت اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام

    3. تاييدها وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها وسموها

    4. وارتقاها وكبت بالذل حسدته…

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  13. 1263LetterNLI 577.1/31

    Letter from Muḥammad and Jamīl. In Arabic script, formatted like an official document. In which they report that they have met with Abū Makhlūf according …

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  14. 1264Legal documentJRL SERIES A 792

    Legal document, in Arabic script. Ottoman era. Emanating from the bureau of silk looms (dīwān anwāl al-ḥarīr) in Alexandria.

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  15. 1265State documentT-S NS 89.4

    State petition and endorsement on the same page. Recto, right column: petition by Muslim b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār to a Fatimid judge regarding an endowment consisting …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ثبت

    2. قد اجاب حضرة مولاى القاضى الاجل اطال الله بقاها

    3. وادام تمكينها وعلاها وسموها وارتقاها ورفعتها

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    His slave Muslim b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār.

    2. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Registered.

    3. My lord the glorious judge - m…

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  16. 1266LetterDK 320

    Letter in Arabic script. Complete, filling all of recto and verso. The sender is Christian: he (or she) swears by the baptism in r15 (wa-ḥaqq …

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  17. 1267Legal documentAIU XII.136

    Recto: Last nine lines of a legal document in Arabic dated 555 AH, with the signatures of two witnesses. Verso: Accounts in Arabic mentioning units …

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  18. 1268Legal documentAIU XII.101

    Ottoman-era legal document (or letter with legal content?) addressed to Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad dated 19 Shaʿbān 930 = 1524 CE. Mentions …

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  19. 1269Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 241

    Small fragment in Arabic script, possibly literary. Mentions a place in the first line followed by "حماها الله تعالى". Stamped with a particularly ornate seal …

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  20. 1270LetterAIU XII.84

    Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Dated 17 Jumada I 1236 AH (). Mentions previous correspondences and the trade of cloth (thawb) and robes (kiswa). Names …

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  21. 1271State documentT-S Ar.51.106

    State document. Petition to a Fatimid official titled ʿAmīd al-Dawla requesting that the state seize the petitioner's properties in Palestine because they are not producing …

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    1. والاجحاف به وبهم والظلم له ولهم وعدل الدولة النبوية خلد الله ملكها وحرس عزها

    2. ومولاي الاجل عميد الدولة ادام الله نعماه وكبت حاسديه واعداه يم…

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    1. ... harm and wrong done to him and to them. The justice of the prophetic dynasty, may God make its reign eternal and protect its strength,
    2. and…

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  22. 1272Paraliterary textT-S NS 83.28

    Recto: Memorandum in Arabic script, with a learned disquisition on the meaning of the term "ṭabīʿa" in the works of Hippocrates. Names several specific medical …

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  23. 1273Paraliterary textT-S Ar. 38.15 + T-S Ar. 38.9 + T-S Ar. 38.40

    Booklet of medical recipes.

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  24. 1274Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 226

    Verses from Genesis (e.g., 4:7, 7:11, 7:19) in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew. Fragmented, and the ordering principle is hard to figure out.

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  25. 1275Paraliterary textNLI 577.1/28

    Prayer/invocation in Arabic script. This piece begins with Sūrat al-Nās and ends with Sūrat al-Fātiḥa (with some errors), then yā Allāh yā Muḥammad. In between …

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  26. 1276State documentT-S Ar.34.248

    Tax receipt. Fatimid-era. Short. Granted to a certain Yūsuf. Amounts and date and scribe are not immediately clear. Needs further examination.

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  27. 1277State documentENA 3939.4

    Petition or legal document from a Jew on behalf of the Jewish community to the government. The petitioner's name appears in the lower right margin. …

    1. يقبلون الارض

    2. الايام متع لله بوجوده (الايام؟)

    3. ويهود وبينهم وبين جماعة دعاوي شرعية و

    4.  لهم خلاص الا باللباب (=بالباب) العالي وسمو الهم من الصـ[د…

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  28. 1278LetterT-S Ar.39.370

    Letter from Muḥammad Jāwīsh(?). In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman era. Asking the addressee (al-ʿāmil bi-Miṣr al-Qadīma?) to return the burda(?) that he took from ʿAṭiyya …

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  29. 1279Legal documentAIU XII.82

    Legal document, late, running transaction sheet with (related?) sequential transactions, probably a bill or a receipt of goods and services. Mentions a wage - "ujra", …

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  30. 1280LetterT-S Ar.42.70

    Letter, possibly a draft. In Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part only). The sender may be a merchant writing from Qūṣ (l. 3) or describing his …

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  31. 1281State documentT-S 13J26.24

    A Fatimid decree fragment, possibly of an investiture. Recycled by Efrayim b. Shemarya.

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  32. 1282State documentBodl. MS heb. e 98/69

    Verso: Fiscal document, 3 fragmentary lines with lacunae, in Arabic script. Mentions an amīr with the laqab Nabīh al-Dawla (though this title appears to be …

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  33. 1283State documentT-S Ar.40.47

    Recto: Two drafts of the opening of an Arabic petition from Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-ʿIzz al-Yahūdī to the sulṭān (possibly al-Malik al-Kāmil). Dating: ca. …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. المملوك ابو علي بن ابو العز اليهودي يقبل الار[ض
    3. الارض بالمقام العالي السلطاني السيفي
    4. الملكي خلد الله ملكه وجعل الارض با…

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  34. 1284State documentENA 3982.56

    Tax receipt, Fatimid. Dated: 501 (?). Capitation tax in Fustat. Two registration requests, two ʿalāmas. Trigger: ṣaḥḥa. Glyph at the top.

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  35. 1285State documentT-S NS 243.75a

    Fiscal register. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there.Reused for piyyuṭ. This one reads: 2/3 + 1/4 dinars; [In the …

    1. ثلثان وربع دينار
    2. برمهات
    3. ثلثة دنا[نير
    4. وسدس
    5. من ذلك

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  36. 1286List or tableT-S Ar.40.53

    Business account in Arabic script, lengthy, ca. 1055, with a list of bankers and money changers and their locations. Also contains a list of pharmaceutical …

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  37. 1287State documentBL OR 5566B.12

    Petition from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī to Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin). In Arabic script. Has a tarjama at the upper left; 4 lines of introductory blessings; …

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  38. 1288State documentENA 3925.6

    Tax receipt, Fatimid. Blank verso. Perforated for binding. For the capitation tax of Hiba b. Yūsuf; same dossier as ENA 3936.3, T-S Misc.24.38.1–3, T-S AS …

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  39. 1289State documentENA 3944.8

    Tax receipt, Fatimid. For Hiba b. Yūsuf. Trigger: addā. Year: 547 (?). See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).

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  40. 1290State documentMoss. VIII,339.1

    Fiscal account, possibly Mamlūk-era. Mentions the names of several amīrs, including Ṣuʿlūk b. Majsūr. Al-Maqrīzī mentions an amīr Shihāb al-Dīn Ṣuʿlūk Atābika (Sulūk: I, 556); …

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  41. 1291State documentENA 3944.10

    Recto (original use): Petition or report. In Arabic script. Fragment (the ends of 7 lines are preserved from the lower part of the document). Concerning …

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  42. 1292State documentT-S Ar.42.129

    Petition from a woman to a high dignitary or perhaps to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil himself (one reigned 1200–18 and another reigned 1238–40) in a rudimentary hand. …

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  43. 1293Legal documentBL OR 5566B.2

    Legal document acknowledging receipt of 110 dīnārs from the account of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf for a shipment of purple dye or cloth (argaman). (information in …

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  44. 1294State documentBL Or. 10578E.16

    State document, ending line of a petition containing the raʾy clause. Hebrew liturgical text on verso.

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    1. حضرته {ارا} رايه العالي في ذلك ان شا الله

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  45. 1295State documentAIU XII.33

    State document, Ottoman, dated Jumada I 1238 H. Ledger page connected to the Dīwān Anwāl al-Ḥarīr in Alexandria (most of the institutional title is in …

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  46. 1296LetterENA 2808.38

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Shelomo b. Eliyyahu’s hand? Mentions an old woman, then somebody's (probably the writer's) intention to bring a matter before the state …

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  47. 1297Literary textCUL Or.1081 2.70

    Bifolium from a commentary on Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī in Arabic script.

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  48. 1298State documentT-S NS 305.97

    Petition from Ḥātim to Nuwayr al-Dīn(?) In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Ayyubid or early Mamluk-era. The first ~6 lines are preserved.

    1.   المملوك حاتم

    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    3. يقبل الارض بين يدي المولا الاجل الكبير الاوحد الامير نوير الدين

    4. اطال الله في العز الـ[ـدا]يم بقاه وادام…

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  49. 1299State documentENA 2762.8

    Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script, possibly a petition. Contains blessings for the addressee: "li-ʿālim(?) khallaṣahu(?) li-ʿālamīn(?) adāma Allāhu saʿdahū wa waṭṭada(?)... majdahu …

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  50. 1300Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 441

    Portion of a legal document in Arabic script. Someone acknowledges a debt to someone (... wa-dhimmatī wa-khāliṣ [mālī]...) and mentions crops (al-ghullāt).

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