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151
State documentT-S 13J22.27
Fiscal account (?). There are numbers and possibly dates. Ductus seems like someone high-up in the administration. Needs examination, and comparison with similarly structured documents. …
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State documentBL OR 5566C.2
Recto: Petition or report from [...] b. ʿAbdallāh al-Juḥāfī to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Ayyubid-era, based on diplomatic features and the estimated …
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State documentMoss. VIII,141.1
State document, unidentified genre. The beginnings of six lines are preserved. Dating: mentions the year 421 AH, corresponding to 1030 CE. Possibly a record of …
في جمدى الأول سنة احدى
وذكر ذلك فورد التوقيع ا
سنة احدى وعشرين اربع مائة ا
والقط (؟) الفرش (؟) الدراحـ[
في ذلك الوقت عن (؟) صه(؟) و
التو…
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State documentMoss. VIII,326.1
State document, likely a report, in Arabic script. Contains the taqbīl clause and the yunhī formula. The sender refers to his prior report (khidma) which …
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المملوك يقبل الارض امام المجلس السامي اعز الله سلطانه وينهي انه
كان اصدر خدمته التي هي جواب الكتاب الكريم وكرار (؟) على….هذه الخدمة…
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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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156
State documentENA 684.2
Decree to a lower official commanding him to retrieve bricks and everything belonging to the government from a certain location (a ruined mosque?); and from …
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157
State documentT-S Ar.41.107
Report to Al-Afḍal ibn Badr al-Jamālī for the attention of the amir Ḥusām al-Dawla regarding a quantity of produce that had been left unattended. The …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين
- صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل تحياته وسلامه
- على مولانا وسيدنا الامام الامر باحكام الله …
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158
State documentT-S 12.316
Decree fragment, Fatimid, 11th century. The preserved text reads: "وهذا الغلام فقد كان ورد الـ". Reused by Efrayim b. Shemarya (see PGPID 1649).
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159
State documentT-S 10J9.4
State document. Response to an endorsement on a petition. A multi-handed internal memorandum. Contains endorsements or minutes (or clerks' notes) that haven't yet been deciphered; …
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- والحمد لله وحده وصلواته على [سيدنا محمد نبيه وسلم تسليما]
- العبد المملوك
- …… بن فتح
- امتثل المرسوم فى التوقيع العالى زاده …
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State documentT-S NS J470 + T-S 12.774
Recto: Decree from the 1130s. Only the closing boilerplate and a date (without the year) have survived. Reused by the India trader Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel …
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161
State documentMoss. VIII,143
Letter, possibly official, relating to mosques and construction projects and donations. Mentions specifically the tiles of the mosque. Also "the properties of the government in …
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162
State documentT-S NS 305.23
Fragment of a Fatimid state document. Approximately 5 fragmentary lines are preserved both on recto and on verso. Recto refers to Dīwān al-Mufrad al-Khāṣṣ, possibly …
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[بسـ]ـم الله الرحمن [الرحيم]
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته [وافضل تحياته على سيدنا ومولانا
[الامام] الامر باحكام الله امير المؤمنين وع…
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State documentENA 1179.29
Report or petition to a Fatimid caliph or vizier, opening blessings only. Dating: ca. 1100–71. Cuts off after the taqbīl clause. Addressee may be al-Afḍal …
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State documentT-S AS 152.63
Verso (original use): Fragment from the upper left corner of a petition or official letter in Arabic script. ASE
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- بسم]الله الرحمن الرحيم
- المملوك يقبل الا]رض امام المجلس
- ]الاجلي المولوي
- ]الدين
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165
State documentBodl. MS heb. d 78/38
Fiscal account or receipt dated Muḥarram 437H (July–August 1045). Closing five lines. (MR)
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166
State documentENA 2209.12
State document: fragment of a decree (sijill manshūr). Reused for piyyutim.
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167
State documentENA 2747.16
Field-guide to taxation. Parts of two paragraphs. Written in a large, calligraphic hand. Collesis joint, suggesting it was once a longer rotulus, but also holes …
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168
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.
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169
State documentENA 1177.78 + ENA 1177.77
Five lines remaining of an official report mentioning two messengers sent from the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira) to Damascus and also mentioning the Banū Hilāl. The …
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170
State documentT-S Ar.29.186
Petition to a Fatimid vizier regarding the repayment of a debt. The petitioner asks for help in dealing with the head of the arsenal, Abū …
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يعرف با[ـبـ]ـي [ا]لاعسر ريس الصناعة و[ ]
بين المملوك وبينه معاملة ولا عليه حسـ[ـا]ـب ولا جبة ضمان ولا كفالة
وأن الريس المذكور ضيق على …
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- ... known as 'Abū al-'A'sār, the head of the arsenal and [ there have been no] dealings
- between him and the slave, he is not in debt, nor does…
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171
State documentT-S 8J21.26
Letter or possibly a decree to a lower official in a chancery hand. Upper part only. Someone has attempted to wash out the text of …
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172
State documentT-S Misc.22.286
Petition opening to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Dating: 531–33/1137–39. Al-Ḥāfiẓ had three viziers: the general Yānis (for nine months in 526/1132), Bahrām (529–31/1135–37 and Riḍwān …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
[صلوات] الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه [و]تحياته
على مولانا وسيدنا وامام الحافظ لدين الله اميرالمومنين
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State documentT-S NS 305.23
Petition, or maybe its draft, to the Fatimid Caliph al-ʾĀmir bi Aḥkām Allah. Verso is also some form of state document in a chancery hand, …
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- بسـ]ـم الله الرحمن [الرحيم]
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته [وافضل تحياته على سيدنا ومولانا
[الامام] الامر باحكام الله امير المؤمنين وعلـ[…
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State documentT-S AS 184.87
Fragment from the bottom of a petition. With a raʾy clause (...al-raʾy al-sāmī fīhi lā zāla ʿāliyan...). Dated: Jumādā I 5[.]7 AH. There is additional …
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- يذكرها عبده في ذلك مثبتا مـ[ـن
- الحمد لله[وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد نبيه وسلم تسليما]
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State documentT-S K25.189
Fiscal accounts relating to agrarian administration for the kharājī year 430 (spanning the lunar years 431 and 432 AH, corresponding to 1039–41 CE) issued by …
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176
State documentJRL Gaster ar. 643
State document, probably a fragmentary petition, in Arabic script. Contains a partial taqbīl clause and a name which may read as "al-Ṣāli[ḥī al-Najmī", the penultimate …
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- يقبـ[ـل الارض
- المـ[ـلك الصـ]ـالحي النجمي خلد الله
- جعل الا[رض؟...........
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State documentMoss. IV,21.3
Recto: Petition draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-[ʿIzz al-Yahūdī] kisses the ground before al-maqām al-ʿālī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-sayfī al-ʿādilī, and reports that he …
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- אלממלוך אבו עלי אבן אבי אלעז
- יקבל אלארץ באלמקאם אלעאלי אלסלטאני
- אלמלכי אלסיפי אלעאדלי כלד אללה מלכה
- וינהי אנה רגל פקיר לא יקדר עלי אלקיאם
- בגאל…
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State documentBL OR 5552.2–2a
State document, Fatimid period. Dated: 4 Rajab 523H, which is 23 June 1129 CE. Reporting that two trustworthy witnesses from Alexandria had given testimony, and …
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State documentT-S Ar.7.38
Fatimid petition. Dating: 422–23/1031–32. Second half of a petition to the caliph al-Ẓāhir requesting the return of a church that had been confiscated by decree …
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[جميـ]ـع ما فيها من فضة ونحاس والات خشب
ورخام يساوى ذلك جملة كبيرة فنقضها
وبنا بقبضها دارا فبعضها معصرة وحوانيت
يستغلها جميع ذلك ويحصل…
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State documentT-S K2.1
State document, probably a report. The beginnings of 9 lines are preserved. Concerning the opening of the canal (Fatḥ al-Khalīj, a major festival in Fatimid …
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State documentT-S AS 183.2
Formulary or draft of the opening of a petition to a vizier and qāḍī. Cuts off right after the "wa-yunhī."
- يقبل الارض امام المقام العالي المولوي الاجلي
- السيدي الوزيري القاضي مفتي الانام حجة الاسلام
- سيد الوزرا بنيه السلف الطاهر بسط الله في الخافقين
- احكامه …
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State documentT-S 10J7.8
Official correspondence, in Arabic script, reused for a legal document on recto in the hand of Efrayim b. Shermaya. The writer states that he will …
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حق نافر(؟) وكل [ ] واذا كان
الـ]ـتي اكتب بالاخبار المتجددة في كل يوم
في]عدة كتب في الاوقات التي ترد فيها
]عوضا مما كتب اضمته الك…
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State documentT-S 10J31.3
Original use: A few words from a decree: في ديواني الخاصة والخاص وينبغي ان.
في ديواني الخاصة والخاص وينبغي ان
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State documentT-S 24.42
State correspondence (petition?) addressed to a higher official. In Arabic script. Very wide line spacing. 4 short lines are preserved. Phrases such as: التهاني(؟) اليه …
- التهاني اليه تتوالى والمسار
- ]تهدي اليه تفصيلا واجمالا
- وايام السعادة يدوم لسلطانه
- فلا يخشى لها زوالا ولا انتقالا
- ]..…
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State documentENA 2557.147
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Very elevated register. Approximately 8 lines are preserved, but few details.
- ولخطر ينقضي من عين اعمال الراي الصائب والحيلة الثاقبة
- في تلافي هذه الفوارط اعظم خطر واكثر ضرر
- وكل ما هوذا يعتمد من النجوز ومن التدبير فهو ضد ما توجب…
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State documentBodl. MS Heb. g 2/60–67
Decree, in Arabic script. Approximately twelve lines, later cut and reused to form quires. It is difficult to piece the decree fragments in the order …
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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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State 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 …
- ] . . . امير المومنين وعلى آبائه الطاهرين
- ] يقبل الارض امام المجلس العادلي السيفي
- ] الناصري(؟) الكاملي الهادي عضد الله به الدين
- ] ادام (وخلد؟) قدر…
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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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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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State documentT-S 8J5.21
Verso: Draft of a petition in Arabic script, addressed to a lower official. The petitioners raise a dispute regarding a synagogue (kanīsa). They are barred …
المماليك يقبلو الارض {وهو} ينهوا ان لهم بالمحلة كنيسة خرابة وهي تجمع شملهم
بالصلاة فيها والمماليك [[يمنعون]] //خائفين// من الدخول اليها لكونها …
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State documentp. Heid. Hebr. 24
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions a price, 90 pieces of gold, and "what we have observed is rightful". Reused on recto for Hebrew …
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- هذا المبلغ بيعن تسعين ولا ضرر ففيه بر[
- ادام الله تمكينه ان الذي رايناه صوابا ورحصـ[
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State documentT-S AS 183.93
Official report, probably. First four lines. The sender reports that when his group approached the gardens/fields (basātīn) there remained a good hour of distance between …
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- المملوك يقبل الارض بين يدي مالك الرق وينهي الى علم المولى ادام الله ظله ان لما
- وصلنا الى قرب البساتين بقي بيننا وبين المدينة …
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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 266
State document, probably a petition. Contains a taqbīl clause and closing lines starting with a ḥamdala and ending with a ṣalwala. Verso has jottings in …
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- يقبل الارض ان شا الله
- الحمد [لله و]حده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه واله وسلم تسليما
- [وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل]
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State documentCUL Or.1081 1.2
Petition from Abū l-Ḥasan b. Dāwūd to a Fatimid dignitary. The petitioner is a poor young man, whose father died destitute and left him only …
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- المملوك
- طاهر بن اسحق
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- عبد الحضرة السامية الاجلية العلية الاكرم الاسفهسلار الاشرف
- المقدم …
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State documentT-S AS 183.172
Recto (secondary use): Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by …
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State documentJRL SERIES A 683
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Mentions Qāḍī l-Quḍāt and the sender complains of his poverty. Reused on recto for a vidduy in Hebrew.
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- .الله علوا وسموا الى قاضي القضاة
- ذكرته واستماع بثتي(؟) بعدمي وفقري
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State documentMichaelides (charta) A169
Petition to the caliph al-Āmir (1101–30) from a woman attempting to collect a large debt of 241 dinars on the estate of a deceased person. …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1 بسم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحيـ[ـاته على مولانا]
وسيدنا الامام الامر باحكام الله امير الم…
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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 172
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions 20,000 irdab of wheat. A tentative reading of the first line could be "al-Malik Muʿizz al-Dawla". If the …
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- الملك معز الدولة[...
- ]عشرين الف اردب قمحا
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State documentT-S AS 183.28
Recto: very damaged text of a makhzuma (ledger of receipts). Verso: makhzūma (ledger of receipts) submitted in Rajab 495 AH (= April-May 1102 CE) by …
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