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State documentT-S NS 305.195
Decree? In Arabic script, chancery hand, large letters and huge space between the lines. One and a half lines are preserved. It is difficult to …
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State documentT-S NS 297.59
Fatimid decree, probably. Only a single phrase is preserved: ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. A piece of another letter from the line above is also preserved. …
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State documentT-S Misc.9.18
Decree. In Arabic script. Only a few words are preserved here (...ʿalā ikhtilāf...). Reused for a dirge by Yosef Ibn Avitor. (Information in part from …
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State documentT-S AS 177.207
Small fragment from a Fatimid decree, containing only the phrase "[some verb from the root kharaja/'issue'] the decree/rescript to the Dīwān of [...]."
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State documentENA NS 50.18
Decree. The ends of two lines are preserved. Mentions the cities of [...]nūf and Ṣahrasht (=Ṣahrajt). Reused for a separate document in Arabic script (also …
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State documentAIU II.B.312
A fragmentary line of a widely spaced Arabic text (probably a decree) visible in the left margin; the document was recycled to copy a biblical …
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State documentT-S NS 34.157
Decree, probably. Only a few enormous words are preserved, including ʿalayhi. Reused for poetry in Judaeo-Arabic.
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State documentT-S NS 209.44
A few enormous words in Arabic script, likely from a decree. It is a title and a name, perhaps Thiqat al-Dawla Ḥammād b. ʿAlī. Above …
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LetterT-S Ar.41.98
Letter from ʿAlī b. [...] addressed to Sharaf al-Dīn of apparently requesting clarification of a decree. Full address (unclear where Baker/Polliack got this from): al-malik …
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State documentT-S 10J19.17
State document, in Arabic script. Decree.
المملوك مقدم الجيوش
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State documentT-S Ar.34.328
Decree of investiture(?); two lines widely spaced. Contains rhymed prose in praise of someone: "the stars in the sky.......in their rotation like the order of …
- ]الى النجابة وعلى ىىد[
- ]الجواهر في الافلاك [ ] في مواكبه ترتيب النجوم في الافلاك
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State documentENA 2481.17 + ENA 2481.18
Decree, fragment, reused for Hebrew piyyut/poetry. The preserved text reads 'and on his brother' - wa ʿalā akhīhi.
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State documentAIU IX.A.3
Likely a decree to a lower official, to judge by the sloppy hand. The section toward the end contains inshallāh, then kutiba, with the date …
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State documentAIU IV.C.302
Decree, probably a public copy with gigantic line spacing. Mentions the signature/ʿalāma (khaṭṭ, khuṭūṭ) of two just witnesses (al-shuhūd al-ʿadlayn) and overseers (al-mushārifīn). Also mentions …
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State documentENA 979.1
Decree fragment: one line on verso. wa-ri'āyan li-kum[ ]. Cut, reused, and bound in a Hebrew script literary text: 15 lines plus notes on recto, …
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State documentENA 979.2
Decree fragment: one line on recto. 'adal(a) followed by tooth+loop (fragmentary word). Cut, reused, and bound in a Hebrew script literary text: 12 lines on …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. a 3/2
Very long letter dated ca. 1100, issued by the two judges of the capital in the name of the Nagid Mevorakh, in which a circuit …
- نسخة كتاب الرئيس الاجل
- بخط רבנו אלדאיב الی عند الشوفاط
- בשמך רח
- כתאבנא אנו שני הדיינים הקבועים בפסטאט מצרים הממנים
- מפי כגק מו מבורך אלוף הבינות חכם ה…
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State documentT-S NS 323.14
Decree, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. Only three lines of text are preserved. Needs examination.
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State documentT-S Ar.39.304
Bifolio containing a copy of a decree (sijill muʿaẓẓam) of appointment issued by the caliph al-Āmir (r. 1101–30) at the behest of the vizier al-Afḍal …
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State documentT-S NS J470 + T-S 12.774
Recto: Decree from the 1130s. Only the closing boilerplate and a date (without the year) have survived. Reused by the India trader Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel …
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Legal documentT-S 18J1.6
A religious slaughterer who was careless in the exercise of his duties is flogged and forced to make a public confession. Dated 9 Iyyar 1339/ …
- מעשה שהיה בפנינו בבית דין מושב שלושה בעיר אלקאהרה הסמוכה
- לפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס //הנה[ר]// מושבה בשלישי בשבת בתשעה ימים
- לחודש אייר שנת אלף ושלוש מאו…
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State documentENA 2148.95
Fragment of a decree. There is a single full word: "al-mustaḥabbīn."
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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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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 …
60v
- والاستقامة وا…
61v
- واولى المساعي الله[
- تصل الله بها حبل الـ[
62v
- الى فارط القضا فيه
- حقهم وجرت بينهم وبين
65v
- مشاجرة ادت
- فتجمعوا لطلب
66…
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State documentT-S NS J40
Original use: State report or petition. In Arabic script. Nearly four lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. Refers to the arrival of a …
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State documentENA 2808.45
Small fragment of a Fatimid decree containing a truncated closing formula and the beginning of the date (day of the week only — Thursday). Interesting …
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LetterT-S Misc.24.137.4
Leaf from a court ledger. On recto: Testimony of compliance with an order issued by the head of the Jews, Netanʾel ha-Levi. Dated: First third …
Response to a decree of the ra'is al-yahud Nethanel ha-Levi, regarding the proper conduct of a meat slaughterer. 1471 Sel. (1160). TS Misc. Box 24, f…
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State documentENA NS I.31
Recto: Fragment of a state document, possibly a decree. 2 lines preserved. In Arabic script. Some phrases read as "yanālu aṣḥābuhu mimman yaḍumm... wa-akhdh...", "wa-l-muṭālaba …
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State documentBodl. MS heb. d 81/21 + Bodl. MS heb. d 81/20 + Bodl. MS heb. d 81/19 + Bodl. MS heb. d 81/22
Decree, in Arabic script. 6 lines of a chancery document chopped into pieces and then reused to form quires. The line on fol. 19a has …
Fol. 21r
- ونجاز علقهم وتسهيل مطالبهم والمبالغة في
Fol. 20v
- اجمل معاملهم مع إشعارهم انهم يجرون
- على عادتهم في بسط العدل عليهم والنظر بعين
Fol. 19r…
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LetterT-S 16.196 + T-S 12.9
Rescript of the judges of the court appointed by the Nagid Mevorakh to the community of al-Mahalla, advising the community in strongest terms to take …
T-S 12.9 recto
(1-2) Proceedings that took place in our presence, etc. Whereas there came to our attention the state of affairs in our beloved and …
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State documentENA 2209.12
State document: fragment of a decree: [hādha a]l-sijill al-manshūr fī l-aʿmā[l]. . . . Reused for piyyutim.
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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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Legal documentT-S 13J30.5
Fragment of an ordinance (taqqana) concerning the Jerusalem community in Fustat. The community decides to choose ten men who will manage the community with Efrayim …
- תבת מא תקנתה אלגמאעה מן אלריבונין אלמקימין במצר עלי
- אנפסהם כתרהם אללה מע מאפרים ב שמ פי שהר תמוז משנת
- ממא יאתי שרחה פי אכר הדא אלכתאב רגדה מנהם גמיע…
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LetterPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.21 (Michaelides 21)
Decree of a Coptic official, dated 25 Baʾūnah (?) of the Coptic year 1392 (?).
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State documentDK 284.1
Rotulus. 4 Arabic-script fragments were pasted together to form a long rotulus for a Hebrew literary text on verso. Text 1 is a decree (wide …
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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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LetterT-S AS 147.37
Order sent to the community of Fustat from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (d. 1355) recommending the elder Shemuel for charity, followed by requests and …
- ה[נ]ה אל [י]שועתי [וכו]ל
- אלגמאעה אלכרימה אלמקימין במצר
- יברכם צורם אנס יעלמו אן מצות
- צדקה אגרהא עטים בין יד[י]ה [תע וכ]צ[וצא
- למן הוא עני ודי עאילה וה…
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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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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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State documentENA 2591.3
Fragment of a decree mentioning the funds of a dīwān in exchange for something. Late Fatimid (paleographic dating), same chancery hand as some of the …
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State documentENA 3412.7
Fragment of a larger document in Arabic on verso, most likely a medieval-era decree. The only visible line reads: "... الصناعة المحروسة ليعمله" (perhaps referring …
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State documentENA 1177.76
State document, fragment of a longer text, dismembered at the collesis. What has remained is wa-mā tawfīqī illā bi-l-lāh. Possibly Ayyubid (tawfīqī billāh was an …
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Legal documentT-S 13J25.16 + T-S 16.135
A communal enactment (taqqana) passed by the Jewish community of al-Maḥalla, in which they pledge their loyalty to their judge Peraḥya [b. Yosef], to retain …
- ...אלתקנה אל]די כתבוהא אהל אלמחלה אלבעץ מנהם פי מא יכץ ר פרחיה בן
- ר יוסף ?...] בקהל אלמחלה ש"צ ומא אפתי פיהא רבנו משה ש"צ מלה במלה:
- מא יקול כבוד גדו…
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LetterT-S 20.104
Statute (‘taqqana’) about the conduct of two slaughterhouses, one at the Great Bazaar and one at the Bath of the Mice, issued by a committee …
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- [ ]ב[ אגת]מעו [מעהם פי כני]סה
- [אלשאמיין במצר] אלמערופין בפרנסתהא ובאפ[וטרופסי] אחואלהא
- אלמהתמין בעמארתהא פי גמיע אמורהא [אל]די {מנהם}
- פי גמלתה…
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State documentT-S 13J7.29
Decree (copy in Hebrew script) from the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir to a governor of Palestine (probably Anushtekin al-Dizbirī) informing him of another decree that had …
- על שמך
- ערצת בחצרת אמיר אלמומנין רקעה מתרגמה
- בגמאעת אליהוד אלרבאנין יסאלון פיהא
- חמלהם עלי מקתצא אלסגל אלמכרם
- אלמכתתב להם באן ימכן אחבארהם
- מן אקאמה פר…
- In Your name.
- There was submitted to the Presence, the commander of the faithful, a petition in the name (ruqʿa mutarjama)
- of the community of Rabba…
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J39 + BL OR 5566B.5
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Ṣedaqa b. Khalaf b. Fuhayd, in Tyre, to al-Shaykh al-jalīl Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Sheviʿi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 11th century …
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State documentT-S C2.209 + ENA 4045.2 + JRL SERIES B 5446 + T-S F13.1 + T-S 13.20 + ENA 3751.5
Original use: State decree from the Fatimid chancery, written under al-Ḥākim, al-Ẓāhir or al-Mustanṣir to an official in Egypt regarding a dispute over irrigation canals …
Combined reading from all fragments. Lost Archive, p. 397
their signatures validated it... fifty dīnārs... except for the amount of the officials ...…
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LetterENA 1822a.46
Letter in Arabic script concerning a governor, a bishop and monasteries. In the formal third-person address, the writer apologizes for sending the request in writing …
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State documentT-S Ar.40.37
Decree (manshūr) issued by the caliph al-Hafiz on 21 Rajab 528/1133 to stop two cases of malpractice which were adversely affecting the Delta province of …
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State documentCUL Add.3336
Bottom part of a decree of a Fatimid Amīr titled Surūr al-Malikī to a provincial governor or fiscal official, dated 2 Jumāda II, no year. …
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ذخر الملك كوكب الدولة وسديدها ابو منصور بختيار الجيوشي ادام الله تا[يـ]ـيد[ـه]
مكاتبتك بإزالة الاعتراض عن قنده الذي في المعصرة
بجوجر وان…
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