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1551
State documentBL OR 5557B.17
Contract of lease for an irrigation channel on the jazīra of Fustat (the Nile island later known as Rawḍa). Dated: 18 (or maybe 28?) Shawwāl …
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1552
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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al-Amīr ʿĀzim al-Dawla and his slave Saʿīd b……
In the name of God the most merciful
I do not doubt the love of al-Shaykh al-Sayyid, may G…
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1553
State documentHalper 354
Testimony in Arabic script probably meant to accompany an investiture petition from the gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda to the newly appointed caliph al-Mustanṣir billāh, listing …
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- [ بعد ما التمسوا]جميعا وفرادا
- [ ان يشهدوا هذه الشهاده قال كل]منهم من كتب شهادته بخطه
- [ فى اخر هذا الكتاب ان ا]لذى عرفوه وعقلوه ويشهدوا
- [ به فى…
(Having been requested,) we, all together and each separately,
(to deliver this testimony,) namely all those writing their witness and signing
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1554
State documentT-S C2.209 + ENA 4045.2 + JRL SERIES B 5446 + T-S F13.1 + T-S 13.20 + ENA 3751.5
Original use: State decree from the Fatimid chancery, written under al-Ḥākim, al-Ẓāhir or al-Mustanṣir to an official in Egypt regarding a dispute over irrigation canals …
Combined reading from all fragments. Lost Archive, p. 397
their signatures validated it... fifty dīnārs... except for the amount of the officials ...…
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1555
LetterT-S Ar.54.23
Recto: Letter from a certain Yūsuf who is ill. In Judaeo-Arabic, with erratic handwriting and spelling, difficult to read. He explains why he couldn't come. …
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1556
LetterT-S Ar.54.23
Verso: Letter of appeal for charity addressed to al-Rayyis Yūsuf. In Arabic script, calligraphic with large letters. Asking him to bestow two garments (thawbayn) on …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- يخدم المجلس العالي المولوي
- المخدومي الاجلي المحترمي
- الريسي ريس العلامة يوسف
- ادام الله سعادته وينهي
- المملوك رجل سعلوك وف…
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1557
LetterENA 3913.10
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era, perhaps 18th or 19th century. Seems to have been abandoned halfway through. There are a few words in Hebrew …
زكى السلام التام والتحيات والاكرام تهدي(؟) ذاكر(؟) ويخص(؟) الى
حضرة الجناب المكرم السيد محمود عابدين اعزه الله
ودام بقاه امين
اما بعد نعرفكم …
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1558
LetterENA 3925.5
Verso: Letter in Arabic script, in a book hand. Opens with two verses of poetry, then probably a taqbīl ([... al-a]rḍ), then greetings for the …
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1559
List or tableT-S Misc.8.67 + Halper 465
Secondary use: Two fragments from a list of male persons, mostly craftsmen or foreigners (Goitein surmises that they are people for whom the capitation tax …
Right column:
- ..] בן יוסף טואף ס
- ..]. בן סלימאן דמשקי
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- יוסף בן אבראהים צבאג
- יחזקאל בן אסחק
- יוסף בן עמראן [[...]]
- צח יעקב בן מוסי חלבי …
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1560
State documentT-S Ar.11.35
Recto: Petition in Arabic script from "the son of one of the doctors" to two addressees. The petitioner mentions his desire to open a shop …
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1561
State documentT-S Ar.11.35
Verso: Petition or report to the Fatimid vizier al-Afḍal (r. 1096–1121) regarding a government appointee reporting for duty or fulfilling an order. Including a raʾy …
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1562
LetterENA NS 47.21
Business letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ṭulayṭulī to Abū al-Najm Hilāl b. Yosef ha-Qara. In Arabic script. For other Qaraites from Toledo, see T-S 13J9.4 (PGPID …
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1563
State documentDK 256 (alt: XXI)
State document: report to a high bureaucrat (with taqbīl clauses), written under the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir, 509/1115; in the Hebrew on verso, the date is …
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1564
LetterAIU XII.117
Recto: Letter/petition, or letter in the style of a brief petition, from "your student Bū l-Majd" to a high-ranking physician. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably …
الحكيمي
بو المجد تلميذه
المملوك يجدد الخدمة الكريمة المولوية المالكية
الحكيمية ويسأل اجابة حضوره فان
المملوك حصل له الم في رجله وباب العمار…
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1565
State documentCUL Add.3336
Bottom part of a decree of a Fatimid Amīr titled Surūr al-Malikī to a provincial governor or fiscal official, dated 2 Jumāda II, no year. …
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ذخر الملك كوكب الدولة وسديدها ابو منصور بختيار الجيوشي ادام الله تا[يـ]ـيد[ـه]
مكاتبتك بإزالة الاعتراض عن قنده الذي في المعصرة
بجوجر وان…
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1566
State documentCUL Or.1080 J7
Petition to the caliph al-Mustansir concerning the schism of 1038–42 between Shelomo b. Yehuda, the gaʾon of Palestine, and a pretender to the gaonate, Natan …
Verso, upside-down relative to Hebrew text
بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم العبيد ينهوا الى الموقف الشريف زاد الله شرف حالهم وذلك ان لما
جرى على ريسهم …
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1567
Legal documentENA 3904.2
Marriage contract between a Rabbanite man Khalfā b. Saʿūd, son of Farajallah b. Nafīs and a divorced Rabbanite woman Fāṭima. The marriage was commemorated upon …
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1568
LetterENA 3754.11
Petition. Dating: Late 16th or early 17th century, as it involves the well-known rabbi and judge Ḥayyim Kapūsī (1540–1631). The petitioner makes accusations against a …
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يقبل الارض بين يدي الموافق العالية اعلاها الله تعالى
وينهي ان ثم رجل يهودي يسمى سعد بن العيصي كان ملتزم بمقاطعة الجوالي سابقاً فانكر عليه
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1569
State documentT-S Ar.18(2).193 + T-S Ar.30.306 + T-S Ar.30.314
State document in Arabic script, an internal memorandum or report containing multiple hands. Containing (on the last fragment) the signature of the vizier Ḥusayn b. …
T-S Ar.18(2).193 + T-S 30.306
لـ[مو]لانا صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين الرأى العالي في خروج
[التوقـ]ـيع المعظم فيما راه الحضرة من مسرقة هذ…
… if God wills.
My sufficiency is God. How excellent a keeper is he!
The slave of our lord and master the imām al-Mustanṣir bi-Allāh, commander…
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1570
State documentT-S Ar.39.395
State accounts relating to the tax farm of the lands of Dayqūf, in the province of al-Bahnasā, administered by Basṭiyya b. Marqūra and the property …
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1571
State documentAIU VII.E.166
Recto: Informal note in difficult Arabic script, scrawled basmala on top, possibly a memorandum to do with land tenure? Needs further examination. Verso: Informal note …
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1572
State documentBL OR 5552.2–2a
Fragment of a Fatimid state document. Reporting that an official document belonging to an unnamed person (the -hū of kitābuhū) and dated 4 Rajab 523 …
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1573
State documentT-S NS 234.50
Order or report in multiple hands to do with 131 dīnārs paid to the treasury (bayt al-māl). Person mentioned is Saʿd al-Mulk Ilyās, possibly a …
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1574
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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