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1501
List or tableENA 3943.13
Mercantile memorandum or bill of lading (tadhkira) in Arabic script. Listing items that were shipped with a certain captain (al-rayyis... al-Ḥayfī) for Abū Ṭāhir b. …
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1502
LetterENA 3961.9
Beginning of a petition -tarjama, basmala, formulae, on the right side 4 lines diagonally- from a Jewish woman (al-mamlūka [...] Abū l-Majd Ibn al-Ḥaver). In …
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1503
State documentENA 3953.1
Receipt for the capitation tax of Mubārak b. Ibrāhīm Ibn Sabrā, in Fustat. After the basmala, the trigger phrase is "tadhkira bism" (memorandum/receipt in the …
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1504
State documentNLI 577.1/59
Upper left fragment: Official correspondence in Arabic script. The document is probably written for a recent convert to Islam from Samṭā (on the Nile delta). …
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1505
Legal documentAIU XI.258
A draft version of the same legal query to a jurist (istiftāʾ) as in T-S Ar.41.105 (edited by Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents, …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
ما يقول الشيخ الامام العالم العامل الزاهد الورع الامين عماد الدين
اقضا قضاة المسلمين مفتي دولة امير المؤمنين وفقه الله ل…
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1506
State documentT-S H5.115
State document in Arabic script. Three lines and the last word of a fourth are preserved. Mentions titles of the judge Abū Isḥaq (al-qāḍī al-rashīd …
... new, and trustworthy regarding people and property, a name is required
that gathers together all these epithets so that he may be distinguished w…
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1507
State documentMoss. IXa,2.68
Tax receipt for the capitation of Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadaqa in Fustat for the year 526 AH. Amount: ½ dīnār (the lowest rate). Jahbadh: Hibat Allāh. …
Recto, top right
- المبلغ نصف
- الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين
Recto, top left
- الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين
Recto, main text
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- ادى ابراهيم بن…
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1508
State documentENA 3951.7
Tax receipt, Ayyubid. Dated: 7 Muḥarram 607 AH = 1 July 1210 CE. The payment is made (min jihat) by a government employee (al-mustakhdam); the …
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1509
State documentT-S Misc.8.67 + Halper 465
Two fragments from the middle and bottom of a petition to a vizier. Dating: likely 1051–62 CE, as Daniel b. ʿAzarya seems to be Gaʾon …
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- . . . ها فيها في كف القوم الذين قد ذكر رجالهم عما يعتمدون وقصرهم [
- عنه والامر بالشد من الـداوودي وتقوية يده ومنته وتنفيذ كلمته
- لـيستثمر بذلك ح…
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1510
State documentBL OR 5566B.19
Petition from al-Ḥasan b. Abū Saʿd probably to a vizier (several of the titles are similar to those of Ṭalāʾiʿ Ibn Ruzzīk). He complains of …
1. المملوك
2. الحسن بن ابو سعد
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. خلد الله تعالى ايام المجلس السامي السيدي الاجلي الناصري
5. الـعادلي ناصر الائمة كاشف الغ…
- The slave
- al-Ḥasan b. Abū Saʿd
- In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate
- May God, may he be exalted, prolong the days of the lofty, lord…
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1511
Legal documentENA 3982.55
A 13th/19th-century Ottoman era debt acknowledgment document with a seal. Muḥammad Ḥusain acknowledges (aqarra wa ashada) in his sound mind that he owes 900 Kuruş …
لما كان في يوم الخميس المبارك في ٢٦ محرم سنه ٦٠[١٢]
اقر واشهد على نفسه وهو في حال
خيرته المعلم محمد حسين الى المعلم
حييم النصري انه يكون مل…
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1512
Legal documentT-S Misc.6.113
Iqrār, though in some ways resembles a state document with fiscal content. In Arabic script. 16 full and 4 half lines on paper. Fiscal hand, …
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1513
LetterJRL Gaster ar. 120
Mercantile letter, in Arabic script, late. The sender, Muḥammad al-Firqī(?) expresses his affection for the addressees Shimʿon Francis and Ishāq Suwāris, probably European names, and …
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1514
Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 53
Ottoman-era rental receipt, in Arabic script written on a bifolio. The object of rent might be a mill (Ṭāḥūn) in the Ḥārat al-Yahūd, the payer …
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1515
Credit instrument or private receiptENA NS 71.5
Financial receipt (waqf related) with a seal. Dated [1]256 AH which is . Issued to Hārūn al-Yahūdī and another name appears with the title Hoca.
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1516
List or tableHalper 472
List of Ibn Yiju's deposits and expenditures after arriving in the Egyptian capital.
III, 42 List A, in the margins:
- ולי ענדה //ודיעה// אלפצה ואללולו ואלדהב אל מסאג ואל נחאס אלדי פלצתהא מן אלצנאעה
- וג מכאחל בלואר ופישתין דהב אל וזן כ …
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1517
State documentENA 1177.76
State document, fragment of a longer text, dismembered at the collesis. What has remained is wa-mā tawfīqī illā bi-l-lāh. Possibly Ayyubid (tawfīqī billāh was an …
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1518
State documentENA 3700.1
Petition or report to the Fatimid chief qāḍī and chief dāʿī (القاضي الاجل المكين سيد الوزرا وتاج الاصفيـ[ـا قاضي القضـ]ـاة وداعي الدعاة علم المجد عمدة …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم توكلت على الله
كتب مملوك سيدنا القاضي الاجل المكين سيد الوزرا وتاج الاصفياء
قاضي القضـ]ـاة وداعي الدعاة علم المجد عمدة ا…
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1519
State documentENA 3935.5
Capitation tax receipt, Fatimid. For Abū Naṣr b. Yūsuf (someone with this name also appears in T-S 10J30.15). One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn. …
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1520
State documentBodl. MS heb. b 18/23
Petition to the Fatimid ruler Sitt al-Mulk. Dating (Rustow): 411–14/1021–24. In which an official of a congregational mosque, perhaps the chief khaṭīb, complains about delayed …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- لمولاتنا السيدة الكريمة خلد الله ملـ[ـكها وحرس عـ]ـزها وادام عـ[ـلاها]
- وكبت اعداها في اصطناع المعروف وفعل الخير
- عواىد …
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1521
State documentENA 3945.5
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) in Fustat for Mawhūb b. Ghālib, a Christian. Dated: 537 AH = 1142/43 CE (previous PGP descriptions gave the …
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1522
LetterT-S 12.470
Letter in Arabic to a certain Amīr [...] al-Dawla wa-[...]hā, perhaps reporting on business setbacks and the imposition of a new tax. The sender begins …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عدل مولاي الامير الجليل رشيد(؟) الدولة وموصيها (؟) اطال الله بقاه وادام
تاييده وتمهيده وقدرته ورفعته وسلطانه وس…
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1523
State documentT-S NS 321.47
Fatimid-era petition. From Muʿammar [...] al-Tūnisī. In Arabic script. He is in trouble on account of the capitation tax and says he does not have …
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1524
State documentT-S Ar.35.48
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb, in the hand of Mikhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ
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1525
State documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/4–5
Chancery or fiscal document, presumably Mamluk period. There are two lines preserved, consisting of a date (22nd Rajab is visible) and the ḥamdala. The text …
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1526
LetterT-S NS 288.179
Recto: A private petition/letter in Arabic script from ʿAbdallāh b. Ṣāʿid to the son of al-Shaykh al-Thiqa, in Minyat Ziftā Jawād. Most of the addressee's …
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1527
State documentENA 3944.10
Verso: Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb, with holes at the margin. Registration mark - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih, praise be …
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1528
Legal documentENA 3905.2
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman. Narration of commercial trade accounts. The word 'qabaḍ' appears in prolific numbers associated usually …
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1529
Paraliterary textENA 3982.36
Template fragment of a divination/magical charm starting with a few words of prayers followed by a spell: "fulān b. fulān". Then: 'blind his heart and …
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1530
State documentENA 3945.4
Tax receipt for jizya in the name of Bū Naṣr al-Yahūdī for the year 514. Trigger: addā. Contains a registration mark.
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1531
State documentT-S 10J17.3
Petition. Report fragment, probably early Ayyubid period (taqbīl clause + paleography + reused by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, whose documents cluster ca. 1190–1210; see description …
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1532
State documentT-S AS 184.156
State document, Fatimid period. Petition or report to a vizier (beginning only), possibly under al-ʿAḍid (see line 4, where the blessing uses the verb ʿaḍada; …
- مولانا وسيد[نا
- وابنائه الاكرمين [
- المجلس السامي السـيد[ي
- الكاملي الهادي عضد [الله به الدين وامتع بطول بقاءه امير المؤمنين]
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1533
State documentT-S Ar.42.134 + T-S Ar.49.151 + T-S Ar.42.156
State document, Fatimid period. Letter of a Fatimid dāʿī addressed to a chief qāḍī to congratulate him on a new honor the caliph had bestowed …
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وكبت عداه عند اتّصال الخبر الينا أعلمنا سائر الأولياء بما جدّده الله تعالى عنده من جميل
رأى مولانا الإمام [الظاهر لإعزاز دين الله (؟) أمير]…
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1534
State documentENA 3971.23
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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1535
State documentF 1908.44S + Mainz MS 2
Report to an Ayyubid official mentioning the current ruler al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (the First, d. 1218) and his recently deceased son Shams al-Dīn Mamdūd (aka Mawdūd). …
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1536
State documentENA 3974.3
Petition to the Fatimid ruler Sitt al-Mulk. Dating (Rustow): 411–14/1021–24. In which the otherwise unknown Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan complains that a local amīr has confiscated …
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- عبدها يحيى بن الحسن من ناحية< >
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- اعلم مولاتنا السيدة خلد الله ملكَها وثبت عزها ببقا مولانا وسيدنا
- الامام الظاهر لاعزاز…
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- Her slave Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan from the district of
: - In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
- I inform our mistress, the lady—may Go…
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1537
State documentT-S 10J10.2
State document, report, Fatimid. The report is written on the 3rd of Dhū l-Ḥijja, of an unspecified year, and mentions a previous report that arrived …
اخر ما القدرة(؟) بعده عمل بتاريح يوم الاربعا الثالث
من ذي الحجة….ذكر اخر الوارد من الديوان السعيد
والذي تجدد بعد ذلك خلو الاسواق من الاخباز
- …
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1538
State documentT-S 10J19.13
State document: Official report (fragment) concerning armed insurrection and civil unrest. For the letter on recto, see separate entry.
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1539
State documentENA NS 18.26
Response to a letter of complaint concerning taxation of the Jews of Tiberias. The letter refers to a sijill mukarram (noble decree) of the caliph …
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- واصلنا الشكوى فيما نفعنا معه [
- وورد السجل المكرم من الحضرة المجيدة يذكر فيه ما
- انهاه سباع بن فرج اليهودي من حال اليهود الذمة
- بطبرية وان في…
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1540
LetterENA 2558.21
Letter from a woman, in New Cairo, to her brother Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb the brother-in-law of [...], in Malīj. In Arabic script. The sender …
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1541
Legal documentENA 3965.11
Deed of lease for an apartment (ṭabaqa). In Arabic script. Dated: 25 Ṣafar 919 AH = 2 May 1513 CE. Lessee: Manṣūr b. Najīb (b.) …
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1542
State documentENA 2917.1
Petition or report, Fatimid, fragment from near the beginning containing end of blessings, the taqbīl clause, and part of the qiṣṣa. Dating: 1100–71. Related to …
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1543
State documentENA 2697.8 + ENA 2697.9 + T-S Ar.31.58 + T-S Ar.30.245
State document: internal memorandum. Mentions the proceeds to dīwān al-Farjī and the state official Jalīl al-Dawla. Join: Marina Rustow. T-S Ar.31.58 is dated 507. Possibly …
To our lord, the blessings of God be upon him, belongs the lofty resolution concerning that, if God wills.
Praise be to God alone, God bless our …
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1544
State documentT-S Ar.30.273
Fatimid petition to al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from India and Yemen with …
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العبد المملوك
موسى بن صدقة التاجر اليهودي
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا
وسيد…
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- The servant and slave
Mūsā ibn Ṣadaqa, the Jewish merchant.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The benedictions of God a…
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1545
State documentT-S Ar.39.391
Petition to the Fatimid vizier Al-ʿAbbās requesting an allowance in grain to be paid to the petitioner in yearly installments. Dating: 548–49/1153–54. (Information from CUDL.) …
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الافضلى السيفى الناصرى ا[لــ]ـكافل لقضاة المسلميـ[ـن الهادى]
لدعاة المومنين عضد الله به الدين وامتع بطول بـ[ـقائه امير المومنين]
وادام ق…
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al-Afḍal, sword of Islam, the defender, the protector of the judges of the Muslims [and the guide]
of the dāʿīs of the believers, may God…
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1546
Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. VIII,479.8
Order of payment, in late Arabic script with a seal. ʿĀzar (=Ezra) al-Yahūdī al-Ṣayrafī is to pay the bearer (Nāṣif) 20 and half silvers. Contains …
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1547
Legal documentT-S 13J19.10
Legal/official document in Arabic script. Drawn up in the majlis al-khidma of an amir with grand titles (...majd al-khilāfa ʿizz al-dīn jamāl al-umarāʾ fakhr al-mulk …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
حضر مجلس خدمة الامير المقدم الامير الامين مجد الخلافة عز الدين جمال الامرا فخر الملك
سيف الدولة…. العميم صنيعة امي…
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1548
Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 54
State document in Arabic, an order of payment from the bureau of silk looms (dīwān anwāl al-ḥarīr), a branch of the state silk monopoly. Dated …
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1549
State documentT-S Ar.41.43
Request for a fatwā (or possibly a petition or official report, or simply a letter). In Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Begins with a taqbīl …
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1550
State documentAIU XII.15
Official account mentioning the transfer of sums to the fisc (bayt al-māl) from the bureau of the capitation tax (bayt al-jawālī): "mablagh al-maḥmūl ilā bayt …
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