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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. (Information …
- 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 ויצ[יף …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/38
Letter preceded by a Hebrew poem consisting of three verses, from Shemuel b. Moshe to Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf Yehosef (Manbij), the tax-farmer of the local …
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LetterT-S 10J16.14
Letter from Manṣūr (probably 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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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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Legal documentT-S NS J297a–b
Legal document: dissolution of a partnership, concerning a tax farm in al-Maṭariyya.
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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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Legal documentT-S 13J3.12
Settlement of a complicated dispute in Fustat recording that Abu al-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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List or tableT-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 …
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LetterT-S 10J18.13
Letter in which a tax-farmer named Yehuda, who received one and a half dinars a month, is mentioned. Dated to the 12th century.
- בשמ
- וצל כתאב חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אטאל [ אללה
- תע בקאהא וכבת באלדל חסדתהא ואעדא[הא
- . . . . . . אם פאכתרת פיה אלטי ואלנש[
- . . . . כ]תאב קד גא מן ענד…
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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 …
- 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 רמצאן…
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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.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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Legal documentT-S AS 117.175
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 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 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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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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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 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 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 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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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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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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State documentT-S AS 183.172
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 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 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.40.13
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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State documentT-S Ar.40.142.1
Fol. 1: 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 …
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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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Legal documentT-S NS J138
Contract between Abu al-Ḥasan and Abu al-Ma'ali regarding tax-farming in the town of Bush and its environs. Dated Elul 1460/ August-September 1149. (Information from Mediterranean …
- 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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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 Ar.40.142.2
Fol. 2: receipt for the amount of 2 and a quarter (dirhams?) relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl …
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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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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/17
Sub-leasing agreement of a tax farm of silk production for the town of Bush and its surroundings, which was worth 3.5 dinars. Dated Tammuz 1458/ …
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- שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא סוף שטרא דנן כן
- הוה בחדש תמוז דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה וחמשין ותמניא שנין לשטרות
- באלפסטאט רשותיה דא…
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/8
Sub-leasing agreement written in Damietta in 1106 in which the farmer of the dues from dyeing and selling silk in the district of Damietta sub-leases …
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- שהדותא דהוה באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתימ[י]ן חתמות ידנא ל[תחת
- שטרא דא כן הוה חצר אלינא מסאפר בר עלי סט צאמן אלחריר ואלצבג
- בדמיאט וקאל לנא אשהדו על…
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State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.20
Receipt for tax, possibly Mamluk
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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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LetterT-S Ar.39.386
Letter of appeal from a man, unknown location, to Musallam (or Musallama) Abū ʿAlī, the wakīl of Shams al-Dīn Ildakīz al-Birṭāsī, in Minyat Bāsik in …
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State documentT-S Ar.40.153
Tax farming lease from the administration of al-Mustanṣir, dated 479 "kharājiyya" (1086/7 CE). Mūsā b. ʿĪsā takes upon himself a monthly payment of 8 dinars …
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LetterT-S 13J14.14
Complaint of a damin (tax farmer) in al-Minya about competitors, submitted to the Nagid Mevorakh around 1096. The writer claimed to receive one of his …
- בשמך רחמנא
- אללה תעלא(!) ישמע מן אלעבד מא ידעי לחצרה אדנינו
- כגק מר ור מבורך אלוף הבינות חכאם(!) השיבה(!)
- סנהדרה רבא עוז בית ישראל שר השרים נגיד
- הנגיד…
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Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.14
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Abū al-Makārim b. Bishr and Abū al-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd partner in tax collection in three towns in Upper Egypt, paying an …
- יכתב עקד שרכה בין אלשיך בו אלמכארם בן
- בשר ואבו אלחסן בן סעיד פי אלבלאד אלדי
- מכארם צאמנהא מן אלצמאן מדה ח שהור
- אולהא תמוז פי ג בלאד בוש וונא
- ומידום ע…
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LetterT-S 18J2.6
Letter from Simḥa Kohen, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Manṣūr. Dating: ca. 1205 CE. The writer complains about the extortions of a tax farmer who …
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- ואמרתם לחי ואתה שלום וביתך שלום
- וכל אשר לך שלום
- ממלוכהא אלדאעי להא שמחה כהן
- ינהי תקדמה כתבה לחצרת אלמולא
- אלסייד אלאגל אלוגיה אלשיך אלאגל
- אבי …
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State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.2
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 …
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State documentT-S 12.821 + ENA 3682.5
Recto: State document. Report to al-Ẓāhir about a tax farmer, beginning only. Dating: 1021–36 CE. (Cited in Khan, BSOAS 53 (1990) 25; Arabic Legal and …
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LetterT-S Misc.8.18
Public letter in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (d. 1237 CE). The cantors of Fustat are instructed to read it aloud in the synagogue on …
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Legal documentT-S 16.22 + T-S 10J5.17
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, dated 1449 (= 1138 CE). A tax-farmer (ḍāmin), Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. ʿUlla (known as …
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LetterT-S 13J20.2
Letter from a tax farmer in the Fayyum, who was cheated of his share by his partners, was unable to pay his debts, and was …
- עבדהא
- צדקה בן תאמאר
- בשמך רחמנה(!)
- אלמסתגאר באללה ובחצרה סידנא תבת אללה
- מגדהא וצאעף סמוהא וכבת עדוהא
- גיר כאף ענהא חאלה ומא הו עליה מן
- אלפקר וכתרה אלע…
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Legal documentT-S 13J3.6
Legal document. Dated: First decade of Elul 1458 Seleucid (July/August 1147 CE). In which Abū l-Riḍā Yaʿaqov b. Yosef, "the noble and generous," takes over …
"נדיב ושוע" אחד מקבל מידם של חוכרי מסים, שפשטו את הרגל את חכירת אלמחלה
- שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא
- לתחתא כן הוה חצר אלינא אלשיך אבי אלרצ…
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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 documentT-S Ar.39.395
State accounts relating to the tax farm of the lands of Dayqūf, in the province of al-Bahnasā, administered by Basṭiyya b. Marqūra and the property …
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