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State documentT-S AS 183.319
Small fragment from the top of an official-looking document, with an ʿalāma at the top and reference to tax farming (ḍamān or ḍummān).
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LetterT-S 12.655
Recto and verso: Letter addressed to R. Nissim. In Judaeo-Arabic. He is to ask Ibrāhīm al-Ḥaver al-Kohen b. al-Ḥaver to appear before the court in …
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Legal documentT-S AS 145.57
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Concerning a transaction, mentioning Abū ʿAlī and the tax farming (or tax farmers) (ḍamān or ḍummān) …
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Legal documentT-S AS 169.293
Contract related to tax farming in New Cairo, likely a partnership agreement between two men. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Mentions the …
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LetterT-S NS J42
Petition requesting that the addressee intervene on behalf of the writer, whose trees have been sold by an abusive ḍāmin named Karīm without permission. It …
- חצרה אלשיך אלתפארת
- ישמרו אלהינו ויחיה חמודו
- התלמיד רצוי הישיבה שצ
- תעלם מא אוגבו חכמ[י] התורה
- זל פי מעשה צדקה וקאלו [גדול
- המעשה יותר מן העושה וי . [ …
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- His excellency the glorious elder,
- may our God protect him and preserve his beloved (son),
- the scholar, propitiation of the yeshiva, may his …
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List or tableT-S K15.91
Detailed inventory of the estate of a very wealthy person, including a debt of 125 dinars to tax-farmers. Dating: ca. 1145 CE. Mentions names such …
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LetterENA NS 75.20
Left fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. There is an address: to [...] al-Dawla Moshe ha-Zaqen ha-Sar the tax farmer (ḍāmin), in Damīra. But it is not …
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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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LetterENA NS 52.13
Letter from Yosef ha-Levi to Yosef Bagilyer. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century. Concerning tax farming. Mentions two rich and famous figures …
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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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Legal documentENA NS 75.20
Right fragment: Small fragment of a ketubba written in the Palestinian style. In the hand of the ḥaver Shemuel b. Moshe, the same scribe as …
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State documentT-S Ar.39.26
Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Yūḥannā b. Mīkhāʾīl on behalf of his father Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, …
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State documentT-S AS 177.330
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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State documentT-S Ar.34.38
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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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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Legal documentT-S NS J138
Contract between Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen and Abū l-Maʿālī regarding tax-farming in the town of Būsh and its environs. Dated Elul 1460 Seleucid = August/September 1149 …
- בוש וגמיע[
- אלמדכור מן אין [אש]תרי אל . [
- .[.]גד ואלא פילזמך תודי(?) לה מכס מא[
- אבו אלחסן אלצאמן אלמדכור נזל ען טלב [
- יסתחק בעד סנה אדא צמאנה והו תשר…
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- Būsh and all ...
- the aforementioned, from wherever he has bought the ...
- ... or not, and you will be obligated to convey to him the tax ...
- Ab…
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State documentT-S Misc.22.14
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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Legal documentT-S NS J297b + T-S NS J297a
Legal document: dissolution of a partnership, concerning a tax farm in al-Maṭariyya.
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State documentT-S Ar.34.90
Verso: 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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State documentT-S Ar.39.205
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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State documentT-S AS 181.226
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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State documentT-S AS 183.66
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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State documentT-S AS 177.591
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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LetterCUL Or.1080 J258
Letter from Abu Nasr b. Ibrahim, Alexandria, to his partner Abu Ishaq the nāʾib (deputy). Dating: 11 May 1141. The first page of the letter …
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- עונך יא רב
- מגארי גמאדי וגמאדי ורגב פי גמלה תוקיעאת
- ביד אלצמאן הדא אלדי וגדת פי אלדיואן פאן
- כאנא אלכרגין המא לרביעין פקד צאעא
- אגעל צאחבהמא יאכד…
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LetterL-G Misc. 51
Letter from the judge Avraham b. [Mevorakh] ha-Kohen, the head of the Jewish community in al-Maḥalla, to the Nagid/Raʾīs al-Yahūd Mevorakh b. Seʿadya. In Hebrew …
- ב.מד . .מנא ברוך ייי . . . .יעהם ל. . .ל ישועתינו .לה הדה נפשנו בה . .לה ובן למ. . רגל. .
- ארבעה .ה. . . . . . . פי. בר שלום אלע.ו אל חסידיו ואלי אבו…
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State documentT-S AS 176.257
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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State documentT-S AS 178.233
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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State documentT-S Ar.34.89
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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Legal documentT-S 13J3.12
Settlement of a complicated dispute in Fustat recording that Abu l-Ḥasan b. Numayla had rented from Abu al-Ma'ali Shemuel b. Yehuda a house in Alexandria …
- למא כאן יום אלאתנין אלתאסע מחדש כסליו שנת אלפא וארבע מאה ושבעין ושבע שנין לשטרות
- בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה רשותיה דהדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת מרי…
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Legal documentT-S NS 226.33 + T-S NS 226.31
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dates: 1100–38 CE). Two fragments, probably an indirect rather than direct join. Concerns a guarantee …
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LetterENA NS 71.15
Letter from Faḍāʾil to his father. In Arabic script. He has sent prior letters but received no response. He mentions several individuals such as Ṣadaqa, …
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بسم الله ال]رحمن الرحيم
الذي اعرف به سيد]ي ووالدي جعلني الله فداه انني كتبت عدة كتب وما
وصلني لها ا]لجواب واشتغل ذلك قلبي كثير بحكم ما دخ…
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State documentT-S AS 181.225
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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LetterT-S 10J16.14
Letter from Manṣūr (not Manṣūr b. Sālim) in Alexandria to his brother in Fustat mentioning that his son Moshe started to speak and has since …
- מן ענד מנצור רביבה
- . . . ]תצטירהא אלי אלאך אלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאה
- ואדאם עזה ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאה
- גמע אלשמל בה קריב גיר בעיד וינהי אלי אלאך אלכרים…
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LetterT-S 13J20.11
Letter from Zakkay b. Moshe to the ḍāmin (tax-farmer) Abū l-Bishr Mevasser ha-Kohen b. Salmān. The writer, a scribe in al-Maḥalla, describes his work of …
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- כתאבי אלי מולאי אלכהן אלאגל אטאל אללה בקאה
- ואדאם תאיידה ונעמאה ומן חסן אלתופיק לא
- אכלאה וכאן לה ומעה ולי וחאפט ונאצר פי גמיע
- אמורה אנה ולי דלך…
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Legal documentT-S AS 149.13
Legal document/note testifying that a certain Baqā' b. al-Surūr the [indigo] merchant will operate the tax farm (ḍamān) of Tamīm, the ḍāmin of al-Burqāniyya (location …
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- שהדנא עלי אלשיך בקא בן אבו אלסרור תא[גר אלניל
- אן ענדה לתמים צאמן אלברקאניה ארבעה אלדר
- פי כל שהר טאלמא הוא צאמן וטאלמא צמ[ן
- קליוב פי צמאנהם אול…
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- A testimony that the elder Baqā b. Abū l-Surūr [the indigo] me[rchant]
- owes Tamīm, ḍāmin of al-Burqāniyya, 4 dirhams
- per month, as long as (th…
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Legal documentT-S NS 226.57 + T-S NS 225.92
Fragments of a legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dating: mentions [14]44 Seleucid and Jumādā II 527 AH = …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/38
Letter from Shemuel b. Moshe to Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf (Yehosef), in Malīj. The addressee is the tax farmer of the local market and the judge …
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State documentT-S AS 183.172
Recto (secondary use): Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by …
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State documentT-S Ar.34.18
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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Legal documentT-S Ar.42.140
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 529 AH = 1134/35 CE. The muqirr is Bū Saʿd b. Hibatallāh al-Isrāʾīlī. Mentions a loan of …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- أقر بو سعد بن هبة الله الاسرائلي التاجـ[ـر (؟) واشهد على نفسه في صحة منه وجواز امر من]
- غير قهر ولا جـ[ـبر ولا اكراه ول…
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- In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
- Bū Saʿd b. Hibatallāh the Jewish trad[er] acknowledged [and testified, in sound health an…
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Legal documentENA 2715.23
Court register. Recto: Partnership agreement, probably for the tax farming of silk dyeing, for a period of nine months. One of the partners is named …
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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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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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State documentT-S Ar.51.108
Recto, with address on verso: Petition/letter from Muslim b. ʿAlī b. Muslim to Abū l-Faraj Mawhūb b. Yūḥannā. The sender is a state official or …
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LetterT-S 13J26.19
Letter sent by the manager of a farm far away from the capital, named Abu al-Faraj b. Hillel, to the landlord, the Nagid Mevorakh (in …
- סבב הדה אלאחרף אטאל אללה בקא חצרה סידנא שר השרים
- נגיד הנגידים עוז כל בית ישראל ירום הודה ויגדל כבודה
- אעלאמהא אן אלנחל אד לם ישתרי לה שי יקוא בה ואלא…
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LetterENA NS 71.18
Letter, in Arabic script, well preserved. Begins with basmala and “wallahi la-qad ṣadaqa ḥaḍrat mawlāya l-shaykh,” "my Master was right". The sender seems to be …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
والله لقد صدق حضرة مولاي الشيخ اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده
وعلوه وتمكينه وسموه و . . . ته وكبت حسدته واعداه …
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State documentT-S Ar.39.272
Recto: Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abu al-Hasan ibn Wahb including five signatures and some dates.
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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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LetterENA 4011.34
Verso (original use): Legal deed in Arabic script. (Abū l-)Faḍāʾil b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī, the tax farmer of the silk, has to receive 474 dirhams …
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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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