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Official report in Arabic script. May mention Naṣr al-[...] b. al-Faḍāʾil b. [...] in the first line. Approximately 5 lines are preserved. On verso there …
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Small fragment of an account in Arabic script, maybe fiscal. On recto there is Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter in Arabic script. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL)
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. On verso there is Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment of an official letter in Arabic: "aṣdara al-mamlūk khid[matahu]...." Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Part of a letter in Arabic script. (Information from CUDL) Reused on recto for piyyuṭ in Hebrew in the hand of a familiar scribe (see …
Fragment of a letter or official correspondence in Arabic script. The ends of five lines are preserved, with words stacked at the end. Reused on …
Recto: part of a letter in Arabic. Verso: unidentified text in Hebrew characters. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: letter in Arabic. Verso: Hebrew text, probably piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL)
A few words from the end of a line of a state document in large Arabic script. On verso there is a rabbinic discussion. (Information …
Recto: piyyuṭ. Verso: part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Brief official report in Arabic script. Ends, "anhā dhālika wa-l-raʾy aʿlāhu." Dating: Likely Ayyubid or early Mamluk-era, based on handwriting and format. it seems to …
Oficial letter in Arabic script (وما القول الان الا ان . . . له عن تفضله فيجعل ادام الله عزه . . . وافضاله فوالله …
Recto: Arabic jottings. Verso: drafts of phrases from the beginning of a Judaeo-Arabic letter above an official-looking Arabic note, possibly an order or a receipt. …
Pen trials and drafts of various documents, including a petition. (According to Khan, the petition is written to a judge.)
Business letter in Arabic script to Nahray b. Nissim, possibly to Nissim b. Ḥalfon (Aodeh), in Arabic script. On verso, Nahray's notes.
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Commercial letter from Mūsā b. Shahriyār to the three Tustarī brothers, Abū al-Faḍl Sahl, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf and Abū Sahl Saʿīd, in Fusṭāt. The letter …
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Accounts in Arabic script. The name Bū Ṭāhir b. Barakāt appears at the top.
Two orders of payment in Arabic script, and perhaps a remnant of a third. The first one: yadfaʿ al-shaykh al-ajall li-muwaṣṣilihā dīnārayn wa-nuṣr wa-thumn.
Verso: Commercial document in Arabic that was cut up and reused for a communal register of contributions. Dated 29 Muharram 1181 AH which is 1767 …
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 …
Account in Arabic script, Ottoman period.
Arabic literary text, with rubrication. Pinholes at the margin ~3–5mm apart. Note in the volume at JTS says these two pages were detached from one …
Ottoman-era accounts.
Accounts, folded vertically.
Long-form work, fragment of a page mentioning (on verso) enslaved people (jawārī). MR
Letter from Daniel b. Azarya. On verso some names and jottings in Arabic
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Letter from Daniel b. Azarya. The letter was later covered in large writing excercises in Arabic script.
Questions particularly on an excerpt from the Book of Numbers – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 87) – in Arabic. (information from …
Letter (?), left half only, narrow folds like a letter, mentioning quantities of something and a certain Nūr al-Dīn, so maybe Ayyubid? Item 16 in …
Legal document: Bill sale for property to Saqina ibn Yuḥannis by his sister. Buljusuq (Fayyum), early 5th/11th c. Parchment ; 16 lines ; 205 x …
Account, fiscal, probably Fatimid, with amounts listed in dinars and dirhams. Current folio number unclear; item 15 in DPUL.
Official letter of the Mamlūk period. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "une lettre de l'epoque des mamelucks caucasiens (?)" ; on a separate small …
Petition from the Mamluk period. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Un esclave mamelouk demandant à son ancienne maitresse de retourner dans sa première maison" …
Petiton from some students at al-Azhar against a landowner in Arabic, with a line of Ottoman Turkish text in the heading. Dating: Ottoman-era. [Described on …
Petition to ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar to Jawhar al-Ṣafawī, asking him for money. [Described on a separate small piece of paper: "Important"; [next line] "A letter …
Business or official letter in Arabic script, top only; continues on verso. Likely from Ḥamīd b. Qāsim to a qāḍī; mentions Abū l-Ḥasan b. Salīm. …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat to Farah b. Isma’il, Busir. Around 1053. Farah is in Busir, probably was sent there by Nahray, and …
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Possibly a tax receipt or an order of payment. Two endorsements, end of Dhū l-Qaʿda of the year 403 (?) 6x8 cm, verso blank. Item …
Tax receipt, Fatimid, possibly for the year 414? 11.5 x 10.5. NB: There is a discrepancy between the numbering of the manuscripts and the photos; …
Receipt for tax dated 701 (1302)
Petition mentioning the names of Ismāʻīl and ʻUmar al-Kutāmī. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Complainte contre un homme de la tribu de Kutawa [...] …
Petition, possibly Mamluk.
Responsum of R. Hayya Gaon in the Arabic original.
Accounts in Arabic script with Indian numerals, reused for pen trials in calligraphic Hebrew script. Both fragments have the usual holes in the margin, but …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration marks - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran and al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn.
Tax guarantor contract (kafāla wājiba "binding guarantee" or "obligatory surety," line 6). Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 431 AH (1040 CE). Two individuals, ʿĪsā ibn Ḥajjāj and …
اعترفنا عندي المقرين بذلك وكتب مسلم بن الحسين بن محمد الـ…ـي
والحمد لله وحده
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
ضمن لمولانا وسيدنا الامام ا…
Receipt for tax, possibly Mamluk
Decree of a Coptic official, dated 25 Baʾūnah (?) of the Coptic year 1392 (?).