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  1. 1451State documentT-S NS 38a.126

    Petition, in Arabic script. Apparently from a Muslim sender (there are the standard prayers for Muḥammad in the last line) to a Jewish addressee (something …

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    1. الفخري ادام الله ظله                      وينهي انه بلغه يوم الاربـ[ـعـة]

    2. ان المولى طلبه وكان المملوك في القلعة لم يقدر يحضر بين يديه 

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  2. 1452Paraliterary textT-S NS 83.28

    Recto: Memorandum in Arabic script, with a learned disquisition on the meaning of the term "ṭabīʿa" in the works of Hippocrates. Names several specific medical …

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  3. 1453State documentT-S NS 89.4

    State petition and endorsement on the same page. Recto, right column: petition by Muslim b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār to a Fatimid judge regarding an endowment consisting …

    Petition (Right side)

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ثبت

    2. قد اجاب حضرة مولاى القاضى الاجل اطال الله بقاها

    3. وادام تمكينها وعلاها وسموها وارتقاها ورفعتها

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    1. His slave Muslim b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār.
    2. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Registered.
    3. My lord the glorious judge - may Go…

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  4. 1454State documentT-S NS 100.63

    Official correspondence. 7 lines are preserved. Catalogued as a decree concerning tax payment, but needs further examination. Mentions "the release of these seed advances" (khalāṣ …

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  5. 1455State documentT-S NS 110.6

    State document in Arabic script. Letter/report also containing accounts about shipments made on specific dates. Several names of ships (mainly state-owned), and state officials are …

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  6. 1456State documentT-S NS 111.140

    Report from a Fatimid official. Dated: Dhū l-Qaʿda 495 AH (August–Sept 1102) — but this reading might be incorrect. Talks about the cutting off of …

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  7. 1457State documentT-S NS 193.76

    Petition. In Arabic script, in a beautiful chancery hand. Portions of 4 lines are preserved. Includes the raʾy clause (fī hādha l-bābi ʿālī l-raʾyi in …

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  8. 1458State documentT-S NS 243.75a

    Fiscal register. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there.Reused for piyyuṭ. This one reads: 2/3 + 1/4 dinars; [In the …

    1. ثلثان وربع دينار
    2. برمهات
    3. ثلثة دنا[نير
    4. وسدس
    5. من ذلك

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  9. 1459State documentT-S NS 245.49

    Fragment from the bottom of a petition in Arabic script, containing a portion of a raʾy clause and blessings for the addressee (ṣalawāt allāh ʿalā …

    1. الراي العالي في ذلك ان شا الله

    2. ….المذكور

    3. عبده

    4. امتثل عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه ما رسم وتولى المجلس المذكور يمتثل…

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  10. 1460State documentT-S NS 305.97

    Petition from Ḥātim to Nuwayr al-Dīn(?) In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Ayyubid or early Mamluk-era. The first ~6 lines are preserved.

    1.   المملوك حاتم

    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    3. يقبل الارض بين يدي المولا الاجل الكبير الاوحد الامير نوير الدين

    4. اطال الله في العز الـ[ـدا]يم بقاه وادام…

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  11. 1461State documentT-S NS 321.100

    Verso (original use): Lower left corner of a petition in Arabic script, apparently asking for charity or assistance for a woman: . . . . …

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    1. عاد اليها الصدقة[
    2. السجـ]ـل الكريم زاده الله شرفا ونفاذا بالصدقة عليها
    3. ]....ويسل الفسح عنها انعاما عليها
    4. ]......ادام امرها
    5. ]عليه الراي العالي ف…

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  12. 1462State documentT-S NS 325.192

    Most probably a Fatimid report, but written in a decree-like format, or could be a decree relating the contents of the report/petition, in Arabic script. …

    1. الجزية الجارية اقطاعه لم يكن عليها

    2. موظف جسور ولا حق ديواني[ مطلوب؟]

    3. اهلها به من مدة سنين وان المستخدمين

    4. الان قد طلبوهم بموظف الجسور وغريما

    1. The ongoing tax assessment (?) assigned as an iqṭāʿ was not subject to the
    2. imposition of a canal official (muwaẓẓaf al-jusūr), nor to any claim of d…

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  13. 1463State documentT-S NS J40

    Original use: State report or petition. In Arabic script. Nearly four lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. Refers to the arrival of a …

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  14. 1464State 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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  15. 1465State documentUU 1476

    Mamlūk-era, tax receipt, in Arabic script.

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  16. 1466State documentAIU IV.A.206

    Official report. Fragment (left side). The sender reports that he arrived in a certain location at the end of Ṭūba (early February). He reports concerning …

    1. ] . . . واخذت في . . هىه . . و . . م . . . [
    2. ] . لما تسهل وصولي في اخر طوبة
    3. ]ـىه الى اخر امس هذا اليوم اخرجت
    4. الغـ]ـلات والزراعة لا تنقضي في بحيرة
    5. شـ…

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  17. 1467State documentAIU IV.A.211

    First eight lines of a letter addressed to a dignitary ("mawlāya ʾadāma llāh ʿizzah fi ʾamrihi wa-masʾalat mukātabat"), in a chancery-trained hand. Possibly dealing with …

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  18. 1468Legal query or responsumAIU 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, …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. ما يقول الشيخ الامام العالم العامل الزاهد الورع الامين عماد الدين

    3. اقضا قضاة المسلمين مفتي دولة امير المؤمنين وفقه الله ل…

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  19. 1469State documentAIU XII.3

    Receipt for the capitation tax of Musāfir b. Yūsuf in Cairo for the year 502, beginning 'tadhkira bism.' At the top, registration marks related to …

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  20. 1470State documentAIU XII.92

    State document. Dated: 26 Ramaḍān 524 AH = 2 September 1130 CE. A makhzūma (a type of official account) concerning the construction of a new …

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  21. 1471LetterAIU XII.104

    Difficult-to-read and very brief Arabic document, containing the common but mysterious glyph لے at the top of recto and phrases such as "mamlūkuhu", 'li l-sharṭ' …

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  22. 1472LetterAIU XII.116

    Fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script. Relatively large (the bottom 22 lines are preserved + 4 lines in the margin + remnants of …

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  23. 1473State 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…

    1. The slave
    2. al-Ḥasan b. Abū Saʿd  
    3. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate
    4. May God, may he be exalted, prolong the days of the lofty, lord…

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  24. 1474State 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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  25. 1475State 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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  26. 1476State 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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  27. 1477State 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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    1.                     المملوك 
    2.                     منصور بن زكى الدولة
    3.                      احد الرماة تحت ركابها
    4.                      السعيد
    5.   …

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    1. The slave
    2. Manṣūr ibn Zakī al-Dawla,
    3. one of the archers under the commander of his
    4. auspicious horse guard.
    5. In the name of God, the merciful and…

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  28. 1478Legal 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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    1. .....[       ]...[                                                               ]
    2. ولهذه الدار المنعوتة الموصوفة حدود اربعة يجمعهـ[ـا وتشتـ]ـم…

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    1. .....[       ]...[                                                               ]
    2. This house, which has been delineated and described, has fo…

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  29. 1479Legal 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 …

    Additional notes to the deed of sale (receipt)

    1. دفعة في ربيع/جمادى الاول سبع دنانير    دفعة في رجب ثلث دنانير
    2.                                        …

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  30. 1480State 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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  31. 1481State documentENA 402.1 + ENA 402.2

    Verso: Two fragments of a Fatimid internal memorandum dating to the period of al-Ḥāfiẓ (r. 1130-1149). The preserved text mentions "Sadd al-jusūr al-sulṭāniyya", the operation …

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  32. 1482Legal 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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  33. 1483State 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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  34. 1484Literary textENA 3918.18

    First page of a treatise of phlebotomy regarding nomenclature, names, and the number of blood veins (360) in a human body according to Galen and …

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  35. 1485Paraliterary textENA 3925.8

    Medical prescription. Some ingredients mentioned are pear (ijjāṣ), jujube (ʿunnāb), almond oil, seeds of chicory (bizr hindabāʾ), Egyptian Cuscuta epithymum (aftīmūn Miṣrī), Syrian Borage (lisān …

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  36. 1486State documentENA 3926.9

    Fiscal register (possibly equivalent to what al-Makhzūmī and Ibn Mammātī call a rūznāmaj). Contains multiple entries, each with a date and a sum. Each entry …

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  37. 1487State documentENA 3931.7

    Tax receipt in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ for the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Reused on verso for …

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  38. 1488State documentENA 3936.1

    Tax receipt, Fatimid. Two registration marks; 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi l-muwaffiq li-ḥamdihi' and 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn'. Blank verso. Perforated for binding.

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  39. 1489State documentENA 3936.3

    Tax receipt, Fatimid. One registration mark; 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq'. Blank verso. Perforated for binding.

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  40. 1490State documentENA 3938.1

    Tax receipt, Fatimid. Trigger: addā.

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  41. 1491State documentENA 3939.6

    Recto: Report fragment, 7 lines. The sender mentions a group of people who came before him and pledged their allegiance (...ʿindī mudhʿinīn muslimīn ilayya qāʾimīn …

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  42. 1492State documentENA 3942.3

    Verso: tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on a dyeworks (maṣbagha) in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Undated. The date on the receipt, …

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  43. 1493State documentENA 3942.8

    Tax receipt, jizyā, dated 507 H (?). Pinholes at the margin 5mm apart.

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  44. 1494State documentENA 3943.7

    Tax receipt, mentioning the tax was credited towards the treasury. Trigger/subtype: "waṣala li-bayt al-māl."

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  45. 1495List 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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  46. 1496State documentENA 3944.3

    Tax receipt, sixth century AH. Trigger: addā. Written by and for the same people as ENA 3944.4 (PGPID 10466), but registered and authenticated by different …

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  47. 1497State documentENA 3944.13

    Tax receipt for the capitation of Bū l-ʿAlā b. Afḍal yahūdī for the year 500H.

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  48. 1498State documentENA 3944.15

    Tax receipt or commercial account or receipt.

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  49. 1499State 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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  50. 1500State 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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