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Original use: Likely the remnants of a fiscal account. Mentions the term "al-kharājiyya." At 90 degrees in the margin there is a note with a …
אין רשומות קשורות
Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. T-S NS 327.63 Recto contains two documents headed by the glyph and with similar formatting. The upper parts of documents …
Verso (original use): Fatimid state report from a government official: "The deceased was an employee in the western caravan. He returned and lost his mind …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Recto: Informal note in difficult Arabic script, scrawled basmala on top, possibly a memorandum to do with land tenure? Needs further examination. Verso: Informal note …
Official letter. Maybe a petition? Dated 4 Shaʿbān 566 (or 567 or 568?) AH, which is 12 April 1171 CE, if read correctly. The tarjama …
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl al-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat. Dated: 19 Muḥarram 533 …
Fragment of a state document in Arabic script: "kharaja... mablagh... al-mustakhdamīn..."
Lower right corner of a state document, likely an official letter of some sort.
State document, probably accounts of some sort. Mentions "al-mustakhdimīn". Needs examination.
Tax receipt issued for the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 8 Ramaḍān 405. Note: Khan's publication reverses …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Verso: Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 (Khan reads 26 Dhū …
State document, in Arabic script. Damaged/faded. About 8 lines are preserved. The document is probably a Fatimid petition requesting a rescript, "khurūj al-tawqīʿ" and mentions …
Recto: Official letter/report, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of ~5 lines are preserved. Verso: piyyuṭ and phrases praising a dignitary. (Information in part from …
Verso (original use): Petition. The bottom 10 lines are preserved. The petitioner puts himself forward for government employment: المحقين مرسوم بالعناية وقبول الامول(؟) في . …
דיון אחד
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script: "al-Anjab(?) Sulṭān al-[...].... ṣāḥabtuhū ilayhi..." Reused for Hebrew liturgical text on recto and verso. (Information in …
Fragment of a state document. Ayyubid? Interesting layout. One text block begins "uḥḍira ilā al-dīwān fī . . ."; the next mentions al-Shām. Needs further …
Tax receipt.
Petition addressed to Saladin (al-Malik al-Nāṣir). From Maḥmūd b. Mamdūd who describes himself as a warrior in the path of God (al-mujāhid fī sabīl Allāh). …
State document. Dating: Beginning of 12th century CE. Appointment of a Christian dignitary by the government and confirmation that the ordinances of previous caliphs are …
... the noble, prophetic (dynasty), may (God) extend its life, over
all the Christians dwelling in his dominion and living
[in ] the provinc…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
State document. Response to endorsement of a petition written by Yuḥannā b. Abī l-Layth (a Christian), who referred the case to the office of al-Afḍal. …
ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه الراى العالي السامي في ذلك ان شا الله
وكتب في العشر الاخر من شهر رمضان سنة ا…
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To our lord, the blessings of God be upon him, belongs the lofty and exalted resolution concerning that, if God wills.
It was written in…
Fragment of a legal document. In Arabic script. On parchment. Concerning either the sale or rent of a house. About 6 lines are preserved. Includes …
Upper part of a tax receipt, containing only the endorsements / administrative markings.
Fragment of a Fatimid fiscal report in Arabic script (اطلق سلامة فخر ال… وال… على ال…. السلطانية...). At the top there is an endorsement with …
Official receipt(s). Needs examination. On verso there is a fragment from the beginning of a letter in Arabic to someone important, possibly a draft as …
Petition? In Arabic script. Small fragment. The phrase "ilā khidmatihī" is legible in the first line.
Petition in Arabic script. There are multiple senders, evidently Jewish. Much of the remaining text is formulaic. They refer to khurūj al-amr al-ʿālī ('the issuing …
Official receipt of some sort. Needs examination.
Recto: Chancery exercises. The basmala appears twice, and one line begins, "Qāla Amīr al-Muʾminīn..." Verso: State document, Fatimid. Opens with a reference to an employee …
Fragment of an official report, or perhaps a legal document with particularly wide line spacing. Sparse on details but is describing some situation involving a …
Formal letter or report in Arabic script. Reporting that the sender left the addressee, rapidly found a boat, traveled to Alexandria, and delivered the letter …
State document in Arabic script. Portions of four lines are preserved; damaged. Mentions the majlis al-khidma of an amir [...] al-Dawla. Reused on recto for …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Abū l-Munā(?) b. Yehuda in Fustat for the year 5[..] AH. Needs examination.
State document, most likely an official correspondence. Mentions the amīr Sayf al-Dawla's business dealings with the writer. Among the commodities mentioned are luxury textiles (ʿattābī …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
احضرت الثوب العتابي اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ الجليل وادام علاه وسلامته بحضور مولاي
الامير سيف الدولة ومرضيها ادام الله…
תעתוק אחד
Small fragment of a fiscal account, probably.
Placeholder [ASE]
Three different documents stuck together. The main one is a report of the death of al-Ḥājj Ṭāhir. After reporting his death the document lists his …
Most probably a Fatimid report, but written in a decree-like format, or could be a decree relating the contents of the report/petition, in Arabic script. …
الجزية الجارية اقطاعه لم يكن عليها
موظف جسور ولا حق ديواني[ مطلوب؟]
اهلها به من مدة سنين وان المستخدمين
الان قد طلبوهم بموظف الجسور وغريما
Top of a tax receipt. There is a lot of text. Might be from the dossier of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb? Needs examination.
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Receipt, but needs identification for typology. Contains a basmala, and an ʿalāma (الحمد لله حمدا يرضيه). Mentions "al-dīwān" and beginning of a date "bi-tārikh al-khāmis.......arbaʿ …
State fiscal and administrative text from the Ayyubid period. Dated: 4 Rabīʿ II 595 AH = 3 February 1199 CE. Written in the form of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله حمد الشاكرين
لما ورد امر المولا الطواشي الاسفه سلار الكبير بها الدين قراقوش المنصوري
الافضلی بخط کریم…
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God, with the praise of those who give thanks.
When the order of our m…
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Trigger: addā.
State document, in Arabic script. Heavily blurred. The left halves of 7 lines are preserved (which seem to comprise the entire document). Opens with formulaic …
Draft of a petition to the caliph al-Ḥākim, with tarjama and opening formulae. Recto contains a Hebrew legal deed (see separate entry). From Hibat Allāh …
بسم للهّ الرحمن الرحیم
بسم
العبد المملوك هبة الله بن
ابو منصور الیھودي
صلوات للهّ وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وأف…
Original document: Petition from a woman (al-mamlūka), probably in Tinnīs (المقيمة بمدينة تنيس حماها الله تعالى) to a dignitary with the title al-Juyūshī. The addressee …
Memorandum or other internal state communication. In Arabic script, with wide line spacing, fragmented baselines, and frequent diacritics. Four lines preserved, the fourth an interlinear …
Tax receipt, probably Fatimid. Written on the verso of a torn petition or formal letter in Arabic script which reads as "ʿabd Mawlānā wa-Sayyidunā", then …
Likely a fiscal document. In Arabic script. Needs examination. Reused for Hebrew blessings on recto.
Capitation tax receipt, Fatimid. For Abū Naṣr b. Yūsuf (someone with this name also appears in T-S 10J30.15). One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn. …
A few words from an official Arabic document (ḥaḍratuhu... ʿuluwwahu...), apparently praises for an addressee, so from a report or petition. Reused for Hebrew literary …