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1301
State documentBL OR 5566B.12
Petition from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. [...] to Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin). In Arabic script. Has a tarjama at the upper left; 4 lines of introductory blessings; …
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1302
State documentT-S Ar.51.106
State document. Petition to a Fatimid official titled ʿAmīd al-Dawla requesting that the state seize the petitioner's properties in Palestine because they are not producing …
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والاجحاف به وبهم والظلم له ولهم وعدل الدولة النبوية خلد الله ملكها وحرس عزها
ومولاي الاجل عميد الدولة ادام الله نعماه وكبت حاسديه واعداه يم…
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- ... harm and wrong done to him and to them. The justice of the prophetic dynasty, may God make its reign eternal and protect its strength,
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1303
Legal documentBL OR 5566B.2
Legal document acknowledging receipt of 110 dīnārs from the account of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf for a shipment of purple dye or cloth (argaman). (information in …
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1304
State documentBL Or. 10578E.16
State document, ending line of a petition containing the raʾy clause. Hebrew liturgical text on verso.
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- حضرته {ارا} رايه العالي في ذلك ان شا الله
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1305
State documentBodl. MS heb. e 98/69
Verso: Fiscal document, 3 fragmentary lines with lacunae, in Arabic script. Mentions an amīr with the laqab Nabīh al-Dawla (though this title appears to be …
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1306
State documentT-S Ar.40.47
Recto: Two drafts of the opening of an Arabic petition from Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-ʿIzz al-Yahūdī to the sulṭān (possibly al-Malik al-Kāmil). Dating: ca. …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- المملوك ابو علي بن ابو العز اليهودي يقبل الار[ض
- الارض بالمقام العالي السلطاني السيفي
- الملكي خلد الله ملكه وجعل الارض با…
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1307
State documentMoss. VIII,339.1
Fiscal account, possibly Mamlūk-era. Mentions the names of several amīrs, including Ṣuʿlūk b. Majsūr. Al-Maqrīzī mentions an amīr Shihāb al-Dīn Ṣuʿlūk Atābika (Sulūk: I, 556); …
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1308
State documentENA 3982.56
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Dated: 501 (?). Capitation tax in Fustat. Two registration requests, two ʿalāmas. Trigger: ṣaḥḥa. Glyph at the top.
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1309
State documentT-S Ar.42.129
Petition from a woman to a high dignitary or perhaps to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil himself (one reigned 1200–18 and another reigned 1238–40) in a rudimentary hand. …
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1310
List or tableT-S Ar.40.53
Business account in Arabic script, lengthy, ca. 1055, with a list of bankers and money changers and their locations. Also contains a list of pharmaceutical …
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1311
Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 226
Verses from Genesis (e.g., 4:7, 7:11, 7:19) in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew. Fragmented, and the ordering principle is hard to figure out.
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1312
Paraliterary textNLI 577.1/28
Prayer/invocation in Arabic script. This piece begins with Sūrat al-Nās and ends with Sūrat al-Fātiḥa (with some errors), then yā Allāh yā Muḥammad. In between …
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1313
State documentT-S AS 177.116
Fragment of an official-looking letter in Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. Likely a petition for help (كل سنة من احوالهم... حتى …
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1314
LetterENA NS 71.6
Mercantile letter, in Arabic script. From Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl to Abī ʿAbd Allāh b. Khodādād at the Dār al-Wakāla. The writer mentions sending several commodities …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتبت اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام
تاييدها وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها وسموها
وارتقاها وكبت بالذل حسدته…
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1315
LetterNLI 577.1/31
Letter from Muḥammad and Jamīl. In Arabic script, formatted like an official document. In which they report that they have met with Abū Makhlūf according …
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1316
Paraliterary textT-S Ar. 38.15 + T-S Ar. 38.9 + T-S Ar. 38.40
Booklet of medical recipes.
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1317
LetterT-S Ar.39.370
Letter from Muḥammad Jāwīsh(?). In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman era. Asking the addressee (al-ʿāmil bi-Miṣr al-Qadīma?) to return the burda(?) that he took from ʿAṭiyya …
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1318
Paraliterary textDK 223.7
Medical recipe, in Arabic script. Four folios of recipes, probably part of a medical text. Needs examination.
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1319
State documentT-S AS 178.230
Petition to a Fatimid caliph, in Arabic script. The ends of ~8 lines are preserved from the upper left corner, including much of the preamble …
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1320
Paraliterary textJRL Gaster ar. 345
Ottoman-era astronomical table, in Arabic script. Mentions elaborate astronomical calculations on both recto and verso, but especially on verso. The ascendant star/planet and its position …
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1321
State documentENA 3969.4
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
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1322
State documentENA 3969.7
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
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1323
Paraliterary textENA 3956.17
Medical text in Arabic script. Contains instructions for applying flower oil and water lily (nīlawfar) oil over the head, forehead, and a few drops in …
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1324
Literary textENA 3916.10
Medical text. An extract from the Egyptian-origin physician ʿAlī b. Riḍwān's (d. 1060s) citation of Galen's views on the four humours and the causes and …
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1325
Paraliterary textENA 3903.2
Document in Arabic script. Two very narrow vertical strips filled with rudimentary Arabic script. Likely magical, but this is based entirely on appearance rather than …
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1326
Literary textENA 3909.7
Probably a fragment of a poetry dīwān. Preface (tamhīd) followed by verses of love poetry on recto. The preface mentions a lover striving to appease …
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1327
State documentENA 3944.12
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Multiple registration marks such as 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih', praise be to God for his …
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1328
State documentENA 2461.42
Recto: Fragment of an official document in Arabic script. The preserved text contains a string of official titles: "Jamāl al-Dīn... ʿUmdat al-Dawla, Fakhr al-Umarāʾ, Majd …
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1329
Literary textENA 3931.10
Fragment of a legal Islamic (fiqh) manual. The preserved text is a commentary passage on the Islamic ritual of ṭahāra and ablution. Discussions circle around …
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1330
State documentENA 3939.7
Recto: Fragment of a petition (?), 3 fragmentary lines, containing part of an inhāʾ section (al-mamlūk yunhī anna) in which reference is made to the …
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1331
Legal documentENA 3977.7
Legal document, probably dating to the late Mamlūk/early Ottoman era. Mentions grains and vegetables (al-ḥubūb wa al-mazrūʿāt), al-dhahab al-Ashrafī, the Nile (baḥr al-Nīl al-Mubārak), and …
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1332
State documentENA 3940.6
Capitation tax receipt for a 1 dinar payment made by Bū l-Thanāʾ b. Bū Saʿd b. Ṭayyib al-Murakkib (the saddle maker) in New Cairo and …
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1333
State documentENA 3728.10 + ENA 3728.9
Fatimid state report from a lower official to the caliph or other high official(s), including raʾy clause, ḥamdala and ḥasbala. Only the last two lines …
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1334
State documentAIU XII.51
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Dating: Probably Fatimid-era. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. Moderately wide line spacing. Includes …
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1335
State documentBodl. MS Heb. g 2/60–67
Decree, in Arabic script. Approximately twelve lines, later cut and reused to form quires. It is difficult to piece the decree fragments in the order …
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- والاستقامة وا…
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- واولى المساعي الله[
- تصل الله بها حبل الـ[
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- الى فارط القضا فيه
- حقهم وجرت بينهم وبين
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- مشاجرة ادت
- فتجمعوا لطلب
66…
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1336
LetterHalper 398
Letter from Abū Manṣūr, unknown location, to Abū Zikrī al-Rayyis b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat or in Qalyūb ('wherever he may be'). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the …
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- און(?) רישי(?) מן ממלוכה אבי אלמנצור ומן . . . . . אל
- לא אוחש אללה מן חצרה מולאי וסיידי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם
- עזה ונעמאה ומן חסן אלתופיק לה אכל…
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1337
State documentT-S H10.166
Two unrelated Arabic script documents glued together for the sake of reuse. Lower document: State document. Only the first few words are preserved from ~12 …
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1338
Legal documentT-S H10.166
Two unrelated Arabic script documents glued together for the sake of reuse. Upper document: Legal document. Parties mentioned include Abū l-Faḍāʾil Nāṣir b. Karam b. …
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1339
State documentT-S Ar.42.211
Petition or a report, from a group of people to al-ʿĀḍid (cf. formulae in T-S Ar.51.107). Mentions iqṭāʿāt and muqṭaʿīn, several place names, the ṣāḥib …
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1340
State documentAIU XII.105
Recto: Six lines from a formal Arabic petition, probably late Fatimid. The second line reveals the name of an official: "...al-salāṭīn khāliṣat amīr al-muʾminīn Asad …
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له اجمعين (؟) شهد (؟) الدين (؟)……فخر…
والسلاطين خالصة امير المؤمنين اسد الدين ثبت الله
مجده وضاعف سعده واهلك شانئه وضده وقرن
بالتوفيق ح…
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1341
Literary textT-S Ar.43.82
Medical treatise, in Arabic script. On anatomy dealing with the vena cava (al-ʿirq al-ajwaf). Contains rubrication (use of red and black inks).
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1342
Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 9
Receipt of rent, late, Ottoman era, in Arabic script. Maʿtūq al-Yahūdī paid two months of rent from Shaʿbān to Shawwāl for the shop he rented …
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1343
Credit instrument or private receiptAIU XII.51
Recto (secondary use): Order from ʿĀzim al-Bayyāʿ (the grocer) to hand over 1/2 wayba of rice to the bearer of the note. Headed by a …
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1344
Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 335
Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. The Jew Musā Naṣīr (or Nuṣayr) pays the ḥikr (ground tax) for his house in the Jewish neighborhood (ḥārat …
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1345
LetterAIU XII.36
Letter from Ṣedaqa al-Yahūdī to Umm al-Khayr bt. Nūr al-Dīn al-Ḥakīm b. [...], possibly in Bilbays (the address is damaged). In Arabic script. Dating: No …
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1346
State documentUU 1476
Mamlūk-era, tax receipt, in Arabic script.
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1347
State documentENA 3691.6
State document; Fatimid? Seems like a peace treaty/gifts (hudna/hadiyya?) addressed towards the city of Baghdad, possibly, - 'li-l-hudna/hadiyya ilā madīnat al-Salām'. Sums of money, min …
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1348
State documentENA 3974.4
Petition draft. From Manṣūr b. Salāma (Khan) or b. Ṣadaqa (Elbaum and Rustow independently of one another) to the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (1101–30 …
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العبد المملوك
منصور بن صدقة من اهل سنديون
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا وسيد…
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The servant and slave
Manṣūr ibn Ṣadaqa from the people of Sandiyūn.
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
The blessing…
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1349
Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 1
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān to al-Raṣuy, asking for a loan of thirty dirhams using a turban as collateral. Goitein …
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1350
Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 1
Verso: Letter from Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Abū l-Ḥasan. In Arabic script. Dating: early 13th century. Asking for …
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