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1251
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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1252
State documentENA 3972.28
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
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1253
State 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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1254
Literary 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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1255
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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1256
State 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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1257
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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1258
LetterENA 3958.3
Family letter in Arabic script, from a distant man to his children and wife. Dating: Probably Mamluk era, or possibly early Ottoman era, based on …
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1259
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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1260
State 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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1261
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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1262
State documentNLI 577.1/59
Upper left fragment: Official correspondence in Arabic script. The document is probably written for a recent convert to Islam from Samṭā (on the Nile delta). …
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1263
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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1264
Legal documentAIU 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, …
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1265
List 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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1266
LetterENA 3961.9
Beginning of a petition -tarjama, basmala, formulae, on the right side 4 lines diagonally- from a Jewish woman (al-mamlūka [...] Abū l-Majd Ibn al-Ḥaver). In …
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1267
State 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 …
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1268
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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1269
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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1270
LetterT-S AS 180.140
Jewish communal letter in Arabic script. Mostly in Arabic language, with at least one word in Hebrew (اليشوعا, v8). Opens with blessings for the caliph …
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1271
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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1272
Legal documentT-S Ar.53.73
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ II 717 AH = 4 July 1317 CE. Buyer: Isḥāq b. Manṣūr b. Abū Sahl the …
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1273
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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1274
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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1275
LetterENA NS 2.37
Letter, fragmentary, from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Ḥaver b. Amram in Fustat written in his own hand. Eli Ha-Kohen expresses his anxiety …
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- [אטאל אללה בקא מולאי החבר המ]עולה ואדאם עזה ותאידה
- [ קד עלם] אללה שוגל קלבי בך ובמא
- [ ]י ממא טלבת למא קד
- [ ]לו אסמיתה בשי זאדת
- [ ]א עליה וכאן קד…
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1276
State 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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1277
State 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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1278
State documentT-S Ar.42.51
Recto: An account related to the production of cane sugar. The warrantors (ḍumanāʾ) of a sugarcane plantation have received 56 ⅙ ḍarības of sugarcane (1,348,080 …
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1279
State 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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1280
LetterENA NS 71.23
Letter, probably a correspondence between two officials, in Arabic script, with the "inhāʾ" formula and tarjama. The sender reports (yunhī) on a man who owes …
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1281
State documentENA NS 71.12
Tax receipt, Fatimid, from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahab with a registration mark "al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih" dated 25 dhū l-ḥijja 403. On …
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1282
State documentMoss. VII,10.1
Verso (original use): Fragment from a Fatimid decree of investiture for Abū l-Bayān Mūsā and another person, appointed rightfully (بما يقتضيه العدل ويوجبه الحق) to …
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1283
Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. 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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1284
Credit instrument or private receiptENA NS 33.30
Rental document, in Arabic script, possibly a receipt of transportation of unspecified goods, dated to the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal 1259/April 1843. The name of …
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1285
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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1286
State 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.
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1287
State documentENA 3982.2
Fiscal account, Fatimid, for the sum of 2 dīnārs. Opens: waṣala ilā bayt al-māl. Two registration marks: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh wa-bihi nastaʿīn, al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih.
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1288
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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1289
State documentMoss. IXa,2.73
Jizya receipt, in Arabic script. Faḍāʾil b. Bū l-Faraj the Jew pays one dirham towards his capitation tax in Fusṭāṭ for the year 584 H.
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1290
State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.12
State document or a legal document beginning with invocations and blessings upon Fatimid caliph al-Mustanṣir. The layout of the document in different from typical Fatimid …
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1291
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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1292
State documentT-S Misc.6.5
Tax receipt for jawālī with registration marks.
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1293
State documentT-S Misc.6.5
State document that begins "waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr."
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1294
State documentT-S Ar.34.253
Tax receipt. Fatimid-era. In Arabic script. Granted to Bū Saʿd Ibrāhīm. The sum is 7.5 (written at lower left), and half of that is 3.75 …
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1295
State documentT-S 20.80
Fatimid decree. The decree is from the period of al-Hafiz (1131–49) and mentions the congregational mosques of al-Ḥākim (in Cairo) and al-Ḥāfiẓ (it is not …
في المسجدين الجامعين الحافظي والحاكمي
فيضورك من تاخر جائهم فقد خرج
الامر الى الديوان بذكر ما عنده في ذلك
فاعلم هذا امر أمير المومنين ورسمه
In the two congregational mosques, the mosque of al-Ḥāfiẓ and the mosque of al-Ḥākim.
You will suffer if their arrival is delayed. For the order …
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1296
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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1297
Literary textNLI 577.1/29
Literary text, in Arabic script. Part of the text contains an epistolary exchange written in verses, full of expressions of heartsickness and longing. The extract …
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1298
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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1299
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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- الدين الذكر والناهض نصر ادام الله
سلامتهما وحراستهما ونعمتهما
على هذا المثال يعفوا ابو الفرج
بن بو الوحش اليهودي من ضمان
الحانوت ولا يح…
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(titulature) Naṣr, may God prolong
their (dual) well-being, protection and benefaction,
about this (case): they have exempted Abū l-Fara…
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1300
State documentT-S Ar.42.51
State document: On verso, titulature in calligraphic script, including al-khilāfa al-fāṭimiyya, which is rare (maybe hapax) in documentary texts.
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