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LetterT-S NS J42

In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 8708

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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tax farming

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LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/38

In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 6431

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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LetterENA NS 52.13

In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 12344

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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LetterENA NS 71.15

In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 12010

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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LetterL-G Misc. 51

Document Date: 1094 — 1095 CE
In PGP since: 2004
PGP ID: 4045

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 NS J297b + T-S NS J297a

Document Date: December 1289 CE
In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 8763

Legal document: dissolution of a partnership, concerning a tax farm in al-Maṭariyya.

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LetterT-S 10J16.14

In PGP since: 2004
PGP ID: 2877

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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Legal documentT-S 13J3.12

Document Date: 9 Kislev 1477 Seleucid (15 November, 1165 CE)
In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 1099

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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Legal documentT-S AS 149.13

In PGP since: 2004
PGP ID: 4170

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

In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 12255

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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LetterENA NS 71.18

In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 12013

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.39.26

In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 16256

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

In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 16267

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

In PGP since: 2021
PGP ID: 21237

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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State documentT-S AS 181.225

Document Date: Middle of Dhū l-Qa‘da 403 Hijrī (May 1013 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 16723

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

Document Date: 10 Ṣafar 404 Hijrī (21 August, 1013 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 29021

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 AS 184.45

Document Date: 30 Jumādā I 403 Hijrī (17 December, 1012 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 16727

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.40.161

In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 8272

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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Legal documentENA NS 75.20

In PGP since: 2022
PGP ID: 35860

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.34.38

Document Date: 7 Ṣafar 404 Hijrī (18 August, 1013 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 16766

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

Document Date: 8 Rabīʿ II 404 Hijrī (17 October, 1013 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 18707

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

Document Date: 8 Ramaḍān 402 Hijrī (3 April, 1012 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 16258

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

Document Date: Beginning of Dhū l-Ḥijja 403 Hijrī (June 1013 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 16724

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

Document Date: 13 Jumādā II 403 Hijrī (30 December, 1012 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 16726

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 178.233

Document Date: 22 Jumādā I 403 Hijrī (9 December, 1012 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 18599

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

Document Date: 24 Muḥarram 404 Hijrī (5 August, 1013 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 16242

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

Document Date: 25 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403 Hijrī (July 1013 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 16255

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

Document Date: 25 Dhū l-Qa‘da 403 Hijrī (June 1013 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 29029

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 Misc.22.14

Document Date: 3 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403 Hijrī (June 1013 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 16742

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

Document Date: 3 Ramaḍān 402 Hijrī (29 March, 1012 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 16243

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

Document Date: 3 Shawwāl 405 Hijrī (27 March, 1015 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 29024

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

Document Date: Elul 1460 Seleucid (September 1149 CE)
In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 4289

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 Ar.40.142.2

Document Date: 17 Dhū l-Qaʿda 402 Hijrī (June 1012 CE)
In PGP since: 2022
PGP ID: 35102

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 176.257

Document Date: 5 Ramaḍān 403 Hijrī (20 March, 1013 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 16719

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

Document Date: 6 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (28 February, 1015 CE)
In PGP since: 2018
PGP ID: 16720

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 13J14.14

In PGP since: 2004
PGP ID: 3231

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 documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/17

In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 2538

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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State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.20

In PGP since: 2020
PGP ID: 30199

Receipt for tax, possibly Mamluk

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State documentT-S NS J103 + T-S 10J17.6

In PGP since: 2021
PGP ID: 33719

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

Document Date: 7 Rabīʿ I 644 Hijrī (23 July, 1246 CE)
In PGP since: 2021
PGP ID: 20920

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 …

No Scholarship Records

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State documentT-S Ar.40.153

Document Date: First 10 days of Shawwāl 480 Hijrī (December 1087 — January 1088 CE)
In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 8271

Tax farming lease from the administration of al-Mustanṣir, dated 477 "kharājiyya" (1087–88 CE). Mūsā b. ʿĪsā takes upon himself a monthly payment of 8 dinars …

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
ضمن لمولانا وسيدنا الامام المستنصر بالله امير المومنين صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الائمة
الاكرمين…

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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/8

Document Date: Monday, 8 Shevaṭ 4866 Anno Mundi (15 January, 1106 CE)
In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 2553

Sub-leasing agreement. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Monday, 8 Shevaṭ 4866 = 15 January 1106 CE. In which Musāfir b. ʿEli, the tax farmer of …

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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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LetterT-S 18J2.6

In PGP since: 2004
PGP ID: 4512

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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Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.14

In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 2719

Legal document. Partnership agreement. Abū al-Makārim b. Bishr and Abū al-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd partner in tax collection in three towns in the Fayyūm, 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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State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.2

Document Date: 701 Hijrī (6 September, 1301 — 25 August, 1302 CE)
In PGP since: 2020
PGP ID: 30209

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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LetterT-S 10J18.13

In PGP since: 2004
PGP ID: 2916

Letter in which a tax-farmer named Yehuda, who received one and a half dinars a month, is mentioned. Dating: probably 12th century, on paleographic grounds. …

בשמ
וצל כתאב חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אטאל [אללה בקאהא ואדאם תאיידהא
וארתקאהא וכבת באלדל חסדתהא ואעדא[הא
. . . גמאם פאכתרת פיה אלטי ואלנש[
. . . . כ]ת…

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LetterT-S Misc.8.18

In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 8335

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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אמת
אלחזנים במצר ינדרו אלגמאעה
בר יה אלנסא ואלרגאל שני
וחמישי ושני ויום אלשבת
בשחרית אן לא יתערץ אחד
לצבאג אלחריר פי אלביות
לאגל אן אלצאמן שכ…

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State documentT-S 12.821 + ENA 3682.5

Document Date: 1021 — 1036 CE
In PGP since: 2016
PGP ID: 30838

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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Legal documentT-S 13J3.6

Document Date: First decade of Elul 1458 Seleucid (1147 CE)
In PGP since: 1990
PGP ID: 1115

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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LetterT-S 13J20.2

In PGP since: 2017
PGP ID: 3312

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 …

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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 …

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