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501
State documentDK 284.1
Rotulus. 4 Arabic-script fragments were pasted together to form a long rotulus for a Hebrew literary text on verso. Text 1 is a decree (wide …
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502
Legal documentENA 4011.1
Recto: Legal or state document in Arabic script, in what looks like a chancery hand. Fragment from the bottom of the document (4 lines preserved). …
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503
LetterENA 3958.6
Letter from Manṣūr(?) b. [...] possibly to a younger relative Yūsuf (وينهي ان المملوك مشتاق الى خدمة ولده يوسف). In Arabic script. Looks like a …
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504
State documentT-S NS J103 + T-S 10J17.6
Recto: Decree, fragment, to two local officials stating that a certain Abū l-Faraj b. Bū l-Waḥsh should be exempted from paying taxes (or from standing …
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505
State documentDK 246.2
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb (see Khan, ALAD, pp. 140–59). He pays a half dinar for the year 404 AH.
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506
State documentT-S Misc.6.5
State document that begins "waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr."
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507
LetterMoss. IV,40.3
Recto: Legal query for a qāḍī in Arabic script regarding a man "known for ḥujaj" (unpaid promissory notes?), and there are several testimonies against him, …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- ما يقول مولاي القاضي الفقيه المخلص النبيه جمال العلـ[ـما
- وفقه الله لما يرضيه في رجل معترف في حجج معاملـ[ـة
- وعلي…
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508
State documentMoss. IXa,2.68
Jizya receipt, in Arabic script. Ibrahim b. Ṣadaqa the jew pays half dīnār towards his capitation tax in Fusṭāṭ in the year 526 H.
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509
State documentENA 3951.7
Tax receipt, Fatimid. (In fact the handwriting looks Ayyubid, and the date seems to be 7 Muḥarram 607 AH = 1 July 1210 CE. The …
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510
State documentAIU XII.3
Receipt for the capitation tax of Musāfir b. Yūsuf in New Cairo for the year 502, beginning 'tadhkira bism.' At the top, registration marks related …
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511
State documentENA 3974.3 + Bodl. MS heb. b. 18/23
Petition to Sitt al-Mulk from Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan complaining that a local amir has confiscated his grain, 411–14/1021–24. See under PGPID 19304 for explanation of …
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512
State documentT-S Ar.22.140 + T-S K25.221
Report to a Fatimid vizier. Dating: fifth/eleventh century. Khan published T-S K25.221 as the end of petition. Marina Rustow later found the join to the …
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ولمولانا الوزير الأجل صفى أمير المؤمنين وخالصته ادام الله علاه وكبت اعداه
الراى العالي في ذلك ان شا الله
والحمد لله وصلواته على…
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513
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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514
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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515
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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516
State documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/10
Fiscal document, top and bottom missing. Refers to kharāj payments for the year 437 kharājī (about five lines up from the bottom of the page); …
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517
State documentENA 3945.8
Tax receipt, late Fatimid, for the jizya payment of a Jewish person (name difficult to read), with registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq', praise …
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518
State documentBodl. MS heb. b 11/7
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Large format with 16 lines preserved, marginal notes, and crossings out. The document is an internal fiscal Fatimid accounting document …
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519
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
- بسم…
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520
Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J117
Bill of sale dated December 481/1088 (original document), in which Khulayf b. ʿUbayd b. ʿAlī sells a house to Hārūn b. Khulayf b. Hārūn, the …
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- .....[ ]...[ ]
- ولهذه الدار المنعوتة الموصوفة حدود اربعة يجمعهـ[ـا وتشتـ]ـم…
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521
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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522
State documentBL OR 12312.10 + BL OR 12312.11
State decree. Three fragmentary lines from the end of a chancery decree, probably addressed to a provincial official, mentions majlis al-naẓar (refer al-Qalqashandī, Ṣubḥ al-Āʿshā …
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523
State documentENA 3844.14
State document, possibly a decree. Suggests orders conferred upon an authority: hayʾat (?) l-muṭālaʿa wa-l-āʿmāl bihā. There is Arabic script in another not-so-elegant hand and …
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524
State documentENA 3942.3
Fatimid tax receipt possibly from the time of al-Ḥākim bi ʿAmr Allah from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Multiple registrations marks: 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh …
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525
State documentENA 3943.7
Tax receipt, mentioning the tax was credited towards the treasury. Trigger/subtype: "waṣala li-bayt al-māl."
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526
State documentENA 3942.8
Tax receipt, jizyā, dated 507 H (?). Pinholes at the margin 5mm apart.
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527
Legal documentMoss. 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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528
Legal documentENA 3631.8
Legal document, 12 lines, in Arabic script, dated 4th Muḥarram al-Ḥarām of an undecipherable year [8..?]. Concerning [...] b. al-Muʿallim Ṣadaqa the Samaritan Jew, a …
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529
State documentHalper 481
Fiscal account, probably a tax receipt, beginning with the waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr, probably a receipt of delivery to the bayt al-māl. Mentions several …
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530
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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531
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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532
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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533
State documentENA 3945.5
Tax reciept for jizya in the name of [..] b. Ghālib with two registrations marks; 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-muʿīn al-dāʾim', praise be to God who is …
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534
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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535
LetterT-S NS 288.179
Recto: A private petition in Arabic script, 12th–13th century. For the formula, cf. T-S G1.26 (in Judaeo-Arabic). Verso: Three draft lines of a letter in …
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536
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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537
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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538
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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539
State documentT-S Ar.11.35
Petition to the Fatimid vizier al-Afḍal, including the raʾy component and endorsements.
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540
State documentT-S Ar.42.59
Tadhkira (memorandum) from a Fatimid official to another Fatimid official. Tax receipt on verso.
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541
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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542
State documentT-S 10J19.13
State document: Official report (fragment) concerning armed insurrection and civil unrest. For verso, see separate entry.
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543
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 …
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544
State documentENA 2697.8 + ENA 2697.9 + T-S Ar.31.58 + T-S Ar.30.245
State document: A set of responses to petitons (?). Join: Marina Rustow. T-S Ar.31.58 is dated 507. Possibly related to BL OR 5553.1 + BL …
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545
Legal documentT-S Ar.53.73
Legal deed for real estate, Mamluk period, with lots of archival process. 710s-750s AH
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546
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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547
State documentBodl. MS Heb. d 66/13
State document, probably a letter of official correspondence, in Arabic script. Sent by an official with the title ʿĀzim al-Dawla. An order from al-Ḥaḍra al-Majīdiyya …
- ومملوكه الامير عازم الدولة
- ومملوكه الامير عازم الدولة اعزها الله
ومملوكه سعيد بن لا…- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- لست نسأل في مودة الشيخ السيد اطال الله ب…
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548
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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549
State documentMoss. VII,10.1
Official letter in a Fatimid chancery hand, mentioning Abū l-Bayān Mūsā, may God sustain him, and possibly other blessings for him.
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550
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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