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LetterMoss. VII,173.3
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Describing the sender's unfortunate dealings with a government bureau (דיואן). Apparently Ibn al-Farārījī tried to shake him down for money, claiming …
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LetterT-S AS 152.8
Recto: Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks how the capitation tax (al-jāliya) promises to be this coming year. The sender seems to …
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State documentT-S Ar.40.142.1
Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 17 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405 (Bondioli et al.) or 402 …
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State documentT-S Ar.40.142.2
Receipt issued for the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafāʾ against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 8 Ramaḍān 405. Note: Khan's publication reverses the …
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State documentT-S Ar.40.13
Recto: receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office …
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LetterT-S NS J241 + Moss. IV,21.1 + T-S NS J240 + T-S 20.137 + T-S NS J1 + JRL Series B 4089
JRL Series B 4089: This business letter describes commercial transactions and what the author describes as favors or 'gifts' to a fellow trader. The main …
JRL Series B 4089 verso
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- אלתמן גפד וצח וזן אלגוניה אלאכרא
- בהארין גיר סבעה ארטאל סער ה מ
- אלתמן ט פ דינ ולה מן תסלים יאקות א…
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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 262
Fiscal (or other?) receipt. Arabic writing, Coptic numbers.
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State documentENA 2747.16
Field-guide to taxation. Parts of two paragraphs. Written in a large, calligraphic hand. Collesis joint, suggesting it was once a longer rotulus, but also holes …
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- [... الوقـ]ـت الذي جرى الرسم باستفتاح الخراج فيه قدم استخراج
- …[نجـ]ـم من نجوم هذه السنة وما لعلّه يتاخر من مال الابواب في وقته وجمـ[ـيع الـ …
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- [ …(if ... at the tim]e when the levying comes at the beginning of the kharāj (cycle, i.e., the fiscal year), the collection is moved forward …
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View document detailsLetterBL OR 5566C.5
Letter from Ṣadaqa to the Abū l-Najm the Parnas, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender announces his intention to travel to Sicily (in "Bilād al-Rūm") …
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View document detailsLetterMoss. IV,14.3
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Interesting format: the opening praises are written in large blocky Hebrew, with the remaining content in …
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View document detailsState documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.1
Possibly a tax receipt or an order of payment. Two endorsements, end of Dhū l-Qaʿda of the year 403 (?) 6x8 cm, verso blank. Item …
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View document detailsState documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.17
Receipt for tax dated 701 (1302)
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State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.10
Tax receipt, Fatimid, possibly for the year 414? 11.5 x 10.5. NB: There is a discrepancy between the numbering of the manuscripts and the photos; …
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View document detailsList or tableBL OR 5549.8
List of prisoners imprisoned for nonpayment of the capitation tax. Fragmentary. twenty-four names preserved, with sums representing the amounts still due, to be provided by …
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View document detailsLetterDK 123f
Letter from Avraham b. Shelomo b. Yehuda perhaps to Efrayim b. Shemarya. In Hebrew. Complains about a Coptic kātib (הסופר הערל, lit. "the uncircumcised scribe") …
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View document detailsLetterT-S Misc.25.22
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. After many nice phrases, the body …
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LetterT-S AS 132.237
Letter fragment (lower right of recto, lower left of verso) in lovely handwriting. Mentions the capitation tax, hunger, and charity. On verso a woman seems …
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LetterMoss. Ia,12.1
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaʾon (in the hand of his son Avraham) to Egypt. Mentions oppressive laws and heavy taxes and punishments and requests …
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- ומו[
- זוכרי[ם
- עם ב[
- שכינת עו[לם
- ישמרו צורנ[ו
- אשר עלינו וטוב [
- אוכלים אותנו ח[יים
- עליהם חוקים חקו[קים
- תחלה המס הכבד אש[ר
- והעונש אשר לשום ל[
- העיר …
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Legal documentENA NS 77.254
Notes for the drawing up of a deed of sale for a slave. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? One of the parties is …
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State documentT-S Ar.40.161
Recto: Arabic-script document containing several sections. The lower part may be a tax receipt for a sum received from Zuhayr b. [...] from the ḍamān …
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J88
Letter at one point thought to have been sent from Cairo to Bilbays containing a request to contribute to the capitation tax of a poor …
- . . .] כגק מר ור אלישע [. . . . . . . .
- הלויים הירא שמים הנדיב יברכו צורו
- ויעזרו ויגן בעדו ויזכהו לראות
- שמחת חמודו ותורתו ואריכות ימיו
- אמן סלה מ…
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Legal documentT-S 8J10.17
Husband who intends to travel abroad allocates 20 dirhams per month, namely, five per week, for his wife, plus some wheat, the 20 dirhams to …
- חצר אבו אלפרג בן גזאל אל
- קיסראני אקני מן רוחה טאיע
- גיר מגבר אנה יקום ל[זוגתה
- אם אולאדה פי כל שהר בכ
- דרהם כל אס //ביע// ה דראהם וובתין(!)
- קמח טייב וח…
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Abual-Faḍl, son of Ghazal the Alexandrian, came
And obligated himself with a qinyan of his own free will
And not under duress, (so) that…
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State documentL-G Ar. II.79
Capitation tax receipt for Sulaymān al-yahūdī b. Mūsā al-yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib (?). Dated 24 Dhū l-Ḥijja 524 AH (1130 CE). Not authenticated at the top by …
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LetterENA NS 68.6
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports on receiving authorization (al-ʿalāma) to collect the kharāj tax from the official in charge of estates (ʿāmil al-mawārīth). …
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List or tableT-S 8J41.13
Census for the capitation tax. List of male persons with consecutive numbers over the names. First complete no. visible is 19, but some names are …
- בו סעד בן [
- אולאד נביקה אבו ע.[
יט ך
- יחזקאל זהרה אסחק כהן כרים בן [
כג כד
- וסרור בן גוית אבו [[עמר צבאג]] אבו אלכיר טיב? אם ב..
כה כו כז
- תנא לו…
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LetterT-S 13J6.30
Letter from Yosef to Abū l-Fakhr asking him to help contest his obligation to pay the capitation tax of his brother, who was missing in …
- בשם אל עולם יתברך נצח סלה
- שארע מן כאדמהא יוסף לכ גד קד מר ורב השר הגדול
- בעם ייי צבאות הנדיב והשוע שהוא עשה כמה חסדים
- וטובות בסתר ובגל[וי מ]ולאי אלאג…
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LetterT-S 13J21.10
Recto (secondary use): Late letter in Hebrew to R. Shelomo ha-Sofer from "your wife Dona Soro (=Sara?) and your daughters Reina and Raḥel and your …
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- שלום רב וישע יקרב למורי ואדוני אור עיני ועטרת
- ראשי אדוני אישי כבוד ר שלמה הסופר יל קבל
- רוב שלום מאדון השלום ומני דונה סורו זוגתך
- ובנותיך ריינה…
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View document detailsState documentT-S NS 306.137
Recto: Bottom of a letter (official letter?) in Arabic script. Verso: Tax receipt issued by ʿArafāt(?) b. al-Naqīb the silk tax farmer (ḍāmin al-ḥarīr) to …
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View document detailsLegal documentAIU VII.E.232
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: first decade of Kislev 5454 AM = November/December 1693 CE. Apparently concerning the acquisition of a tax …
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State documentT-S AS 184.45
Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of …
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View document detailsLetterMoss. VII,159.1
Letter from a retired old Alexandrian merchant to a friend in Fustat. One side is a letter in Arabic script and the other side is …
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Literary textBodl. MS heb. f 56/13–19
Copy of a story about the edicts against the Jews in Baghdad and how they were saved. Dating: ca. 1120 CE. The scribe reused numerous …
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- פראית אלצביה עלי אפעאל אבוהא (!)
- אלצום ואלצלוה ואלצדקה פאעתרץ'
- עליהא אלזיגה פאמתנעת וקאלת
- מא אגיר מא אנא פיה לאן אלזיגה
- תשגלני ען הדה אלאשיא…
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List or tableHalper 468
List of persons for whom the capitation tax was to be paid. Late eleventh century. (Information from Halper, Catalogue and Goitein, Med. Soc. II:467)
הרון אכי אלאכרס ולה רבאעי
סלאמה בן הרון בצמאן כלף בן קבה
הבה בן מוסי צבי חנין
הבה בן //אברהים//
יוסף בן כלף צבאג //תפליסי//
סעד בן פרג אלמג
ברכאת בן …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/135
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen, possibly in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Urging him to collect money to pay the capitation tax of …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/40
Letter from Avraham b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā, presumably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1075 CE, several months after the death of …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. f 107/53
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer needs help paying the capitation tax (jāliya). The addressee had previously said something about talking to …
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State documentENA 3971.13
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.34
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State 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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State documentENA 3971.14
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.15
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.16
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.17
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.18
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.19
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.20
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.21
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.22
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.24
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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State documentENA 3971.31
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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