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Petition or formal letter from ʿAbdallāh b. Bū Bakr to ʿIzz al-Dīn the amīr shikār (master of the hunt). In Arabic script. Dating: Mamluk-era. Only …
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Bottom right corner of a 14th C legal contract, probably a contract, dated 27th Muḥarram 723 AH.
List of payments, 16th century.
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Legal document, Mamlūk era, deed of sale, in a very faint and worn-off Arabic script. The document is dated to the last ten days (ʿushr …
Letter from a certain Yūnus, en route from Damascus to Cairo, to the amīr Sinbāy, in Cairo (Ṣalība street). In Arabic script. Dating: Mamluk-era. The …
سم الله الرحمن الرحيم
سلام الله تعالى ورحمته وبركاته وازكى تحياته على خدمة الامير سنباى
سلم الله تعالى والسلام على خدمة سيدي برهان وعلى ا…
Official letter of the Mamlūk period. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "une lettre de l'epoque des mamelucks caucasiens (?)" ; on a separate small …
Legal query draft regarding a man who willed his executor to buy landed property worth 500 dinars, the proceeds of which were to be divided …
Marriage contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 20 Sivan 1609 Seleucid, which is 1298 CE. The bride agrees to live wherever (in Egypt) her husband chooses, …
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Legal document. According to Ashtor, "an agreement concerning a levirate marriage, second half of the 15th century." However the basis for the dating is not …
Recto: Fragment, 11 lines in a chancery(?) hand, difficult to read. Needs examination. Perforated binding. Verso: Mamlukī names in pretty naskhī script on verso. Including …
Top of a decree(?) fragment with a basmala and few honorifics: al-amr al-karīm al-ʿālī al-mawlawī. Probably Mamlūkī.
Small fragment of a state document with a large ʿalāma at upper left. Mentions the name ʿAbd al-Karīm b. al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b. al-Ḥājj [...]. Dating: …
Recto: Petition in Arabic script. Draft. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. The sender asks to be excused from having to go up to the dike. Reused for …
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); …
Receipt for tax dated 701 (1302)
Petition, possibly Mamluk.
Letter from David Kohen to the Nagid R. Natan Sholal, the penultimate Nagid of Egypt. Dating: end of the 15th century.
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Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions items including an herb or hashish (ḥashīsha), a chest, indigo, silk, a ḥawwāla, something from al-Muʿaẓẓamī, the …
Mamlūk-era, tax receipt, in Arabic script.
Fragment of a court record. Location: Cairo. Dating: during the period of the Nagid David I Maimonides (ca. 1237–1300); less likely David II but also …
Deed of sale of a property on recto, with multiple related addenda documents on verso. Dated 2 Muḥarram 777 AH on recto (1375 CE). In …
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[ ] well-protected al-Qāhira, in Ḥārat Zuwayla, in the lane with no outlet known as the ‘bl…
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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 …
Receipt for tax, possibly Mamluk
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: no earlier than 1415 CE, based on the currency niṣf fiḍḍa (medin). The partners are Riḍā b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. …
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Chancery or fiscal document, presumably Mamluk period. There are two lines preserved, consisting of a date (22nd Rajab is visible) and the ḥamdala. The text …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman. Narration of commercial trade accounts. The word 'qabaḍ' appears in prolific numbers associated usually …
Receipt for payment of a tax farmer (dāmin, line 2) in Fustat. The month of Ramadan al-Muʿaẓẓam of the year 701. Alama: al-ḥamdu lillāh sallama …
Legal document from a qāḍī court. Dated: 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 870 AH (Sunday 29 July 1466 CE). The raʾīs al-yahūd, Yūsuf b. Khalīfa, and his …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده جرى ذلك اللهم صلى على سيّدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليماً كثيراً
بمجلس الحكم العزيز بين يدي …
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. Praise be to God alone. God’s prayers and many blessings upon our lord Muḥammad, on his famil…
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Petition, Mamluk period, 1442. Draft of a petition from the Jewish community of Fustat to the Mamluk government concerning the malpractices of ‘Abd al-Latif the …