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51
List or tableT-S Ar.38.137
Large list in two columns, covering both recto and verso. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Giving names of houses, their owners or tenants, numbers, …
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State documentCUL Or.1080 9.8
Complete letter/report in Arabic script written on a long, vertical strip of paper. Looks like a report to a high official or the draft of …
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LetterAIU XII.26
Small fragment of a formal Arabic letter or a state document mentioning "the diwan" (wa-ʿalayhi al-dīwān al-maʿ[mūr] and wa-suʾāl al-maml[ū]k).
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LetterAIU XII.28
Letter, fragment, business related. Needs examination.
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Literary textAIU XII.40
Recto: A passage from an Arabic treatise on love and lovers (ʿishq, ʿāshiq, maʿshūq). Verso: Scattered Arabic text, possibly list or accounts. Needs further examination.
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Literary textAIU XII.47
Recto: Bifolio, mainly containing an Arabic literary text, probably a fable, beginning with "yā qawm ismaʿū maqālatī" and continuing with the promised proverbs, followed by …
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LetterAIU XII.57
Recto: The opening three lines of a state document or formal letter starting with a basmala and containing mainly honorifics. "al-ḥaḍra al-Sāmiyya al-Ajalliyya al-Shaykhiyya al-Najībiyya …
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LetterAIU XII.70
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Addressed to a certain Fakhr al-Dawla (al-shaykh al-ajall, 'the esteemed elder'). The sender met with Muḥyī …
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Legal documentAIU XII.90
Legal document in Arabic script. Only the witness signatures are preserved, e.g., ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh and Bū Bakr [...] b. ʿAbdallāh. Verso: love poetry also …
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LetterAIU XII.91
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Uncertain, maybe late Mamlūk/early Ottoman. The name Abū Ḥamza (?) can be read in the place of the tarjama. Mentions …
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Legal documentAIU XII.107
Undeciphered document in Arabic script. Possibly a receipt with a signature at the bottom. Needs examination.
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LetterAIU XII.116
Long Arabic letter (22 lines plus 4 lines on margin) written in first person about trade (line 13: "wa-kāna fī l-balad jamāʿa min al-tujjār... fa-abāʿū...), …
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Legal documentAIU XII.146
Legal document in Arabic script. Perhaps a deed of sale of a property. On parchment. Fragment: the beginnings of ~10 lines are preserved in additional …
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LetterAIU XII.158
Recto Letter fragment. In Arabic script, with very large letters mentioning prior correspondence. The sender appears to be asking the addressee to graciously send him …
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LetterAIU XII.166
Recto: Probably a fragment of a letter in Arabic, very damaged. Legible words include "the lamp/saddle maker" (السراج)." Verso: Probably a fragment of a Hebrew …
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State documentAIU IV.C.256
Left side of an Arabic-script letter. Possibly a petition, or simply a letter that draws on petition-like phrases (this hypothesis is supported by the fact …
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LetterDK 372
Letter in Arabic script. Ḥaḍara baʿd ijtimāʿī bi-haḍrat mawlāy al-Shaykh al-ajall.... Needs examination. On verso there is Hebrew literary text in a rudimentary hand.
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LetterDK 228.1
Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to [...] al-Malikī al-Nāṣirī. Dating: Probably Mamluk era. 'warada l-musharraf al-karīm al-ṣādir ʿan al-majlis al-ʿāl... wa-ʿalima jamīʿ ma sharaḥahu wa-ammā …
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J151
Verso (earlier side): Letter from Yaḥyā to a qāḍī. In Arabic script. Opens "aṣghar al-mamālīk [...] Yaḥyā yujaddidu khidmata sayyidinā l-qāḍī al-ajall al-awḥad al-qāʾim al-mutafakkir(?)...." …
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List or tableT-S Ar.34.330
Writing exercises in a chancery hand.
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LetterBL OR 10578H.29
Document in Arabic script, perhaps a trade letter/document. Mentions sending something, probably a letter and milk "ḥalība maḥmūla", in the companionship (suḥba) of someone and …
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State documentENA 3695.4
Small fragment with Arabic script in a chancery hand with wide spacing. Possibly a state document. A few words from the two fragmentary lines read …
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State documentNLI 577.1/75
State document, fragmentary, in chancery hand. Mentions the province of Damietta (thagr dimyāṭ) and someone's arrival/appointment to it. Also has an ʿalama in the middle. …
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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 documentMoss. VIII,334
Fiscal document. Needs examination.
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State documentMoss. VIII,64.1
Fragmentary Fatimid petition dated to the period of al-Mustanṣir. A beuatiful raʾy clause tucked at the bottom.
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State documentENA NS 18.27
Official letter in Arabic script. 4 lines preserved, wide line spacing. Reused for legal documents in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate entry). Seems to be a report/petition …
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حدين (؟) وسعد بما حوطه (؟) [
وجردت راي في الخدمة بحيث ساء [...السـ..]دعـ[وة؟
على المنابر ونشر الباب كلمة الصدق باعلى المآثر وصرفت
لوا ع…
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Legal documentENA NS 63.9
Letter fragment, 20 lines, well preserved. The writer at the beginning of the letter mentions a sale that did not reap any profits (lam yūlij …
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. ـعه اليه ووجهي منه يسقط حيا{ء} لانه يعلم كيف جرى امره في ابتياعها
وانه لم يولج في شي منها حبة واحدة وبالله لو…
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State documentBL OR 5566B.25
Recto: State report. 4 lines preserved. Mentions "Bū Kalījār the king of Ahwāz," probably identical with the Buyid Amir Abū Kālījār Marzubān in Persia (d. …
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State documentT-S NS 137.29
State document in Arabic script. Petition or report? Fragments of 6 lines are preserved, wide space between them. Refers to al-Shaykh al-Muʾayyad fī l-Dīn, a …
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LetterAIU XII.60
Letter of complaint, calling on the harassment of Abū l-Najm the filthy "al-Khabīth". Abū l-Najm broke the writer's trust, disobeyed their friendship (lit. sold off …
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State documentENA NS 63.11
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, interspersed with Arabic script in the wide spaces what seems like a draft of a letter or just …
Bold channcery hand
]وسعادته لمضافرته ومطالبته؟
]افدته يعزمه مظهر/بعزمه يظهر لي وله قواها
] للنجاج باولاها واخراها
] يعمل عليها وصدره حالا بع…
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State documentENA 2972.5
Report probably on military matters. In Arabic script. 6 lines preserved. Mentions a wall (al-ṣūr), the dispatching of a warship (ʿushārī), someone named Ibn al-Qaṣʿ(?), …
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LetterENA NS I.72
Trade letter, in Arabic script. The sender instructs the addressee to acquire a Dustarī (=Tustarī) fabric of blue color as soon as he reads his …
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LetterBL OR 5557K.9
Letter or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Almost complete with the top honorifics missing. The writer confirms receiving 4 dīnars (of tax?) and he set …
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LetterBL Or. 5557K.11
Letter or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Top few lines and bottom are missing, and some portion of the left side is cut due to …
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LetterMoss. V,163
Letter, probably mercantile, in Arabic script. Addressed to a certain "mawlāya l-ustādh", from a sub-ordinate. The sender asks the addressee to not put him at …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الـ[ـرحيم
- ما خفي عن مولاي الأستاذ اطال الله [بقاه وكبت حسدته]
- واعداه رقعتي التي كتبته (؟) لاحض..
- لحـ[..] من سو الحال وقد [
- حضر…
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State documentBodl. MS Heb. d 74/38
Fiscal document, in Arabic script, bottom part of the fragment. The document is dated Muḥarram 487 H and the first two lines may be read …
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LetterBodl. MS Heb. d 74/20
Mercantile letter in Arabic script, with the format and script resembling those of a state document. Four lines are preserved. Wide line spacing. May mention …
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State documentBodl. MS Heb. d 77/14
Recto: One line in a relatively small and faded chancery hand interspersed with Hebrew text. May mention 'dīwān'. Reused for Hebrew script on recto and …
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Legal documentENA 3904.2
Legal document, in Arabic script, dated 18 Dhū l-Qaʿda 950 AH = 12 February 1544 CE. An agreement between two parties with witnesses, probably rental, …
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Literary textMoss. IXa,2.24
Two sides of a literary text, from the chapter of jihād from al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān's Kitāb al-Iqtiṣār.
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State documentMoss. IXa,2.57
Fiscal account, in Arabic script. Bears three registration marks, the mablagh formula is also written thrice and contains the 'min l-ʿayn' (gold) formula. Dated, probably, …
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Literary textMoss. IXa,2.58
Literary text, in Arabic script, probably a prayer.
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LetterMoss. IXa,2.36
Letter fragment, in Arabic script. The addressee is asked to come immediately to Manfalūṭ or Akhmīm (in Upper Egypt). Needs further examination.
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Legal documentMoss. IXa,2.61
Legal document, in Arabic script. The hand is not very readable but contains two testimonies at the bottom. Needs examination for content.
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LetterMoss. IXa,2.33
Letter fragment, possibly. In Arabic script. No significant content is preserved(?). Two different letters on recto and verso, or at least written in different orientations. …
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Legal documentMoss. IXa,2.50
Letter fragment, in Arabic script, with wide margins. Mentions Faḍāʾil and Yūsuf. Reused for Hebrew script on verso. [Probably a draft of a legal document, …
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State documentMoss. IXa,2.72
Probably a fiscal document "وصول", in Arabic script. Dated 525 H. The document seems to have been reused for personal accounts. Mentions revenue of a …
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Unknown typeMoss. IXa,2.69
Some sort of a fiscal document, fragmentary, where names of people against how much they owe every week/month is listed. A name ʿAbd Allah, the …
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