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State documentNLI 577.2/24
Receipt in Arabic script (waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr) in the name of Ibrāhīm b. Sunbāṭ al-Ṣayyāgh (the dyer), the Maghribī Jew, dated Ramaḍān 442, …
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State documentT-S NS 98.22
Verso: Petition, in Arabic script. Mentions a judge, the court, and probably the appointment of someone to the position of judgeship who wasn't fit for …
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……………].....ـهم الخلل و ذلك (؟)[
]يعمل به ……. يعرض….منها العهد والوقت استبد لهم جماعة من الفقها
]على بعض حاله (؟) ومن اوقف جميع بالحضرة (؟…
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State documentCUL Or.1080 J80
Petition to a Fatimid dignitary regarding a theft of money. The archer Manṣūr b. Zakī al-Dawla (or: Rukn al-Dawla, which seems more likely given al-Maqrīzī's …
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- المملوك
- منصور بن زكى الدولة
- احد الرماة تحت ركابها
- السعيد
- …
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State documentT-S Ar.34.197
Tax receipt, Fatimid, in the hand of Mikhaʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masiḥ, from the caliphate of al-Ḥakim.
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State documentT-S AS 184.45
Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of …
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State documentT-S NS 164.33
Draft report containing two taqbīl and narratio (inhāʾ) sections. The first section mentions local residents impeding access with stones. Reused for Targum Onqelos of Numbers …
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State documentT-S Ar.1a.140
Verso: Fragment from the left side of an early Fatimid decree or other state document. The ends of three lines remain, including the word al-taqsīṭ. …
- ]ـم واطراد وتشتيت(؟) على اعود
- ]ـسماره الاعمال ووفود رها(؟) والرجوع
- يـ]ستخرج من التقسيط النفقة وجاري
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State documentT-S Ar.40.161
Recto: Arabic-script document containing several sections. The lower part may be a tax receipt for a sum received from Zuhayr b. [...] from the ḍamān …
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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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State documentT-S K1.150
Petition to the vizier Ibn al-Salār from an impoverished army veteran who had served in ʿAsqalān. Dating: 544–48 AH = 1149–53 CE. (Information from Khan.)
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خلد الله تعالى ملك المجلس العا[لـ]ـى [ا]لسيدى [الاجلى الجيوشى السيفى]
الناصرى الكافلى الهادى وعضد به الدين وامتع بطول بقائه
امير المومنين…
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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 ول…
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State documentL-G Ar. I.105
Petition, or at least a formal letter in Arabic script. Portions of 11 lines are preserved. Many polite formulae are preserved, but unclear how much …
ا]لسعيد مما كان مصادرته في كل [
] له دينار لا يوصل منه في هـ[ـذه
] كل(؟) نجم بالغرض ان تجري هذه الـنو[احـ]ـي(؟) [
] فلولا خوفي من سخطه لكنت …
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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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State documentT-S 13J36.12
Verso: Petition. The bottom 10 lines are preserved. The specific request is hard to make out, perhaps for government employment. Needs further examination.
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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 440
Presumably a draft of a letter of appointment for a scribe to the central chancery. ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Muḥammad al-Kātib is appointed as a scribe …
- خــــــــــدمة
- عبد الغني بم محمد الكاتب بديواني
- الانشا والمكاتبات اسعدين //في// مصر //في// شهور سنة
- اربع [[وثما]]وثمانين وخمس مائة
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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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State documentT-S Ar.42.143
Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. Somewhat rudimentary hand. Possibly to the caliph himself (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira). The sender desires to be sent to Syria …
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State documentT-S 16.16
State correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 13 lines are preserved. May involve a tax farm (ḍamān) and includes the dates Ṣafar 439 AH …
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State documentT-S NS J227
Original use: Fiscal account in Arabic script, mentioning wheat and various districts and an ʿāmil. Needs examination.
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State documentCUL Or.1080 J7
Petition to al-Mustanṣir in Arabic, preliminary draft (possibly also in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya), complaining about the closure of the Palestinian synagogue in …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم العبيد ينهوا الى الموقف الشريف زاده الله شرف حالهم وذلك انه لما
- جرى على ريسهم واحبارهم منذ سنتين [[من الفا]] ما كان فيه…
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State documentP. Washington Libr. of Congress Inv. Ar. Paper 63
State document, probably late Fatimid or Ayyubid. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad the miller reports to a wazir (name unattested) about the dilapidated condition of the masjid …
عبده احمد بن علي بن احمد الدقاق
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عدل سيدنا الوزير الاجل اطال الله بقاه وادام نعماه وكبت اعداه قد شمل سائر
عبيده ورعاه(؟…
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State documentT-S K25.191
Original text(s): Document(s) in Arabic script in a chancery hand. Recto and verso have pieces of what are probably two different documents. Recto looks like …
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State documentMoss. VIII,479.4
Verso: Probably a fragmentary state document, mentions al-Majlis and beginning of a date "bi-tārikh". Recto: Regarding selling of a slave girl. (AA)
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State documentT-S 13J33.11 + ENA NS I.23
Original use: Fragment of a chancery document, possibly a decree. In Arabic script with wide line spacing. 7 lines are partially preserved. Later, the empty …
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State documentT-S K25.240.3
Tax receipt of some sort, for the poor Jews of Fustat. Very similar to T-S K25.240.6v. T-S K25.240 ff.3–6 comprise one cluster (ḥikr receipts?) and …
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State documentT-S K25.240.4
Tax receipt of some sort, for the poor Jews of Fustat. Very similar to T-S K25.240.6v. T-S K25.240 ff.3–6 comprise one cluster (ḥikr receipts?) and …
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State documentT-S K25.240.5
Tax receipt of some sort, for the poor Jews of Fustat. Very similar to T-S K25.240.6v. T-S K25.240 ff.3–6 comprise one cluster (ḥikr receipts?) and …
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State documentT-S K3.12
Decree, possibly of al-Malik al-Ashraf. Partially transcribed by S. M. Stern.
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State documentENA 3971.13
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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State documentENA 3971.14
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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State documentENA 3971.15
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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State documentENA 3971.16
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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State documentENA 3971.17
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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State documentENA 3971.18
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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State documentENA 3971.19
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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State documentENA 3971.20
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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State documentENA 3971.21
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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State documentENA 3971.22
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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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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State documentENA 3971.24
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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State documentENA 3971.31
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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State documentENA 3971.34
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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State documentENA 2808.56
Petition in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The sender is saying, to paraphrase, "I am your most devoted servant, so don't force me to …
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State documentENA 3903.4
Document tied to finances that according to FGP could be connected to state procedures. Dating: Ottoman-era. This designation seems feasible given the appearance of "diwan" …
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State documentENA NS 50.18
Decree. The ends of two lines are preserved. Mentions the cities of [...]nūf and Ṣahrasht (=Ṣahrajt). Reused for a separate document in Arabic script (also …
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State documentENA 3906.8
Decree fragment. The beginnings of three lines are preserved on recto (mentioning al-Ramla): الرملة وف . . م . . من ظهر . . وتحصيله …
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State documentENA 3907.12
Document in Arabic, unclear content, left half only, with sewing holes at left, top, and diagonally across the upper left corner. Likely an official document. …
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State documentENA 3907.14
Recto: register of receipts of some kind? Mentions wheat and fava beans. There are several distinct entries, each with a different person's name, and each …
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State documentENA 3907.6
Official letter in Arabic script. Ends of 5 lines are preserved. Content unclear. The red/black border decoration on verso is very similar to T-S 12.459 …
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State documentENA 3907.8
Receipt of some kind for Ibrāhīm b. [...]. A period of one year is specified. There is a word that looks like "halīlaj" (myrobalan), but …
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